There are many narratives scrolled across the spacious Wyoming landscape. We will begin to find language to share what is true and holy and hopeful and challenging and loving in those stories. And we will learn about creating hospitable, respectful, and generous space for others to share the same. The overarching goal of On Sacred Ground is that in listening to these stories each corps member will find that larger narrative that guides his or her own story. 

Our first and last weeks of On Sacred Ground will be spent in introspective studies separate from time spent at our placement sites. We will then develop a personal and group rule of life to guide our community living experience and will move towards a spiritual and personal critical reflection on call and money that will undergird our understanding of social justice. We will study the basic principles for cultivating an environment of respect and justice.

On Sacred Ground features four field trips that address two social justice topics that are central to Wyoming’s narrative: our settler-colonist heritage and cultural connection to ecology. These trips will mimic an indigenous tradition of centering our studies by traveling North, South, East and West for these learning experiences. Two Indian Reservations flank Cody to the North and South. We will investigate the Crow, Arapaho, and Shoshone narratives there, as well as the Little Big Horn, Chief Plenty Coups and Medicine Wheel sites. To the East and West of Cody are two significant environmental projects, Nature Conservancy on Heart Mountain and Greybull River’s Sustainable Landscape Ecology Project.