Opinion: Astonishing census reveals First Nations who are Jews, Mormons and Muslims. Not to mention almost half say they’re ‘secular.’
Although the proportion of Indigenous people who belong to those denominations is declining, it remains that 485,000 Indigenous people today still say they’re Catholic, 110,000 affiliate with the Anglicans and 42,000 are United Church members.
Like other Anishinaabe people, Borrows went on a Vision Quest as a young man, fasting and being alone in the forest. Although he joined the Latter Day Saints when he was 19, he believes those experiences of encountering God’s presence in nature still inform his faith. They are essentially saying, Alder believes, that they don’t want to be associated with “one of those,” by which he means the Christians who are increasingly being condemned for their role in operating about 125 residential schools, which were almost all closed by the 1970s.in traditional Indigenous culture, said Aldred. “The category didn’t exist in the Indigenous mindset.”
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