Find A Way: A Sacred Journey 2025-2028

What is it?
The Find A Way Pilgrimage is a 3 year intention to walk (literally and metaphorically) with the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War across the lands of New England. This war between indigenous tribes and the settler-colonists of the church shapes our history and is largely unknown. It is an unhealed wound in our land, our culture.

“No dream of repair is possible without the long, slow, embodied work of reckoning.” These words from the Landscape of Slavery at Harvard Walking tour imagine a way towards a dream of healing that begins with learning from the land and the peoples who have lived with this land for thousands of years, discovering who we as church have been in that story. How can we begin a new chapter? How can we dream of healing centuries of damage? We will seek to Find A Way, against all odds, to listen, to witness to “streets that may be familiar but which we will seek to hear from in a new way.” (H& LS Tour)

Over three years, Province I of the Episcopal church with various native, ecumenical, interfaith partners in each diocese will sponsor convening opportunities to walk and pray and be in silence and listening together. These events will be on each of the Indigenous People’s Day weekends of 2025, 2026, 2027, and Holy Week of 2028, commemorating the signing of the treaty that ended the active phase of the conflict. Other events may emerge. In each event, the intention is to have opportunities to gather, to walk, to listen.

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2026 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Diocesan Gathering

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday, October 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Journey to the Great Swamp: Day of Remembrance & Reckoning in St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, South Kingstown, RI – On December 19, 1675 a Narragansett encampment of over a thousand civilians was attacked by colonial militias from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, alongside Pequot allies, killing hundreds. On October 12, representatives from the Episcopal Province I Indigenous Peoples’ Justice Network, ecumenical partners, and Native partners will gather at the church near the site of the Great Swamp for a day of remembrance and reckoning guided by Native neighbors. In consultation with leadership from the Narragansett tribe no ceremony of any kind will be performed at the site, but we will be permitted to walk on the site and experience it.

The opportunity to RSVP will be forthcoming; please check back to the Find A Way website or email findawaypilgrimage@gmail.com to be kept abreast of updates.

Following the gathering, there is the opportunity to join a 4-day pilgrimage walking north to Boston.

PILGRIMAGE schedule AND INTEREST FORM FORTHCOMING