Find A Way: A Sacred Journey 2025-2028

Find A Way Pilgrimage 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.

2026 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Diocesan Gathering

Monday, October 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Journey to the Great Swamp: Day of Remembrance & Reckoning in South Kingstown, RI – On December 15, 1675 a Narragansett encampment of over a thousand civilians that was attacked by a colonial militia alongside Pequot allies, killing hundreds. On Indigenous Peoples' Day 2026, we will gather near the site of the Great Swamp Massacre for a day of ceremony and prayer guided by Native neighbors and including the bishops of both the Dioceses of Connecticut and Rhode Island. A bus from Boston will be organized closer to the date.

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