The Historic Church / Native American Relationship

Speaker(s): Renee Grounds, Richard Grounds

Description: Recorded at a meeting of the United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race. The first 5-minutes is Renee Grounds speaking in Euchee. Dr. Richard Grounds begins his first few sentences in Euchee, then switches to English. Richard Grounds, project director of the Euchee (Yu-chee) Language Project in Sapulpa OK works with the five remaining fluent Euchee speakers left in the United States. His daughter, Renee, a board member of GCORR, has dedicated her life to helping him keep the language alive. At another session of this meeting, Caroline Botone and Henry Joseph Willis greeted the group in their native languages of Kiowa and Choctaw. One of the goals of the commission is to support justice efforts for Native Americans.

Length: 1:03:04
Recording Date: 10/5/2007
Recorded at: Anadarko, Oklahoma