北阿拉帕霍部落拆除争议教会入口车道:牧师讲道贬损太阳舞引发的对峙未歇

位于美国怀俄明州的 Wind River 印第安保留地近日再起波澜:北阿拉帕霍部落领袖动用重型工程机械,拆除了通往 Foundations For Nations 福音派教会入口的一段车道。据原住民新闻机构 Buffalo's Fire 11月2日报道(引怀俄明州媒体 Cowboy State Daily 10月29日原始报道),拆除发生在上周四(10月29日):一段涵洞被挖除,部落领袖在拆除现场插上部落旗帜,多名部落成员在场欢呼。
教会建筑坐落在保留地范围内的私人土地上。车道的一处入口被拆除后,教会仍可经另一条道路到达。报道说,部落方面没有就拆除决定举行公开听证;联邦印第安事务局官员在场观察,怀俄明州官员表示此事属于部落事务。教会牧师 Sarah Lucas 没有回应 Cowboy State Daily 的置评请求。
这场对峙源于今年7月的一场讲道。怀俄明公共广播此前的报道说,7月5日是北阿拉帕霍部落太阳舞仪式的最后一天,Sarah Lucas 当天在讲道中贬损太阳舞及其仪式中使用的圣烟斗,相关视频随后在原住民社区疯传,抗议者连续数周在教会外举牌要求其离开。保留地由北阿拉帕霍与东肖肖尼两个部落共同治理,两部落政府都已要求教会离开,并通过登记制度,要求所有非部落组织须经部落批准才能在保留地活动;教会一度被禁止在保留地接送儿童。
Sarah Lucas 此前曾就讲道的呈现方式致歉,但表示教会拥有土地所有权、无意离开,并称教会多年来为社区提供食物银行、衣物发放与儿童课后项目等服务。抗议者则表示将持续抗争。教会与部落之间关于宗教自由与部落治理权的边界,仍无定论。原始报道见Buffalo's Fire:北阿拉帕霍部落拆除争议教会车道(英文)。
Northern Arapaho Tribe Tears Out Driveway to Controversial Evangelical Church: Standoff Over Pastor's Sun Dance Remarks Continues
On the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, Northern Arapaho Tribe leaders used heavy construction equipment to remove a driveway entrance to Foundations For Nations, an evangelical church, according to a November 2 report by the Native news outlet Buffalo's Fire, citing the Cowboy State Daily's original October 29 reporting. The demolition took place on Thursday, October 29: a culvert was removed, tribal leaders planted the tribe's flag at the site, and several tribal citizens cheered.
The church stands on private property within the reservation boundaries. With one access point removed, the church can still be reached by a different road. The tribe held no public hearing on the decision, according to the Cowboy State Daily. Bureau of Indian Affairs officers were on scene to observe, and Wyoming officials said the matter remains tribal. The church's pastor, Sarah Lucas, did not respond to a request for comment.
The standoff began with a sermon in July. Wyoming Public Radio reported that on July 5, the last day of the Northern Arapaho Sun Dance ceremony, Lucas ridiculed the Sun Dance and its ceremonial pipe in a sermon; video of the remarks went viral across Indian Country, and protesters have demonstrated outside the church for weeks demanding that it leave. The reservation's two tribal governments, the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone, have both asked the church to go and adopted a registration system requiring their approval of all nontribal organizations; the church can no longer pick up and drop off children on the reservation.
Lucas has apologized for how the sermon came across but says the church owns its land and has no plans to leave, pointing to services it provides the community, including a food bank, clothing giveaways and after-school programs. Protesters say they will keep demonstrating. The boundary between religious freedom and tribal self-governance remains unresolved. The original report is at Buffalo's Fire: Northern Arapaho Tribe tears out driveway to controversial evangelical church.
来源:GSM·美国(原文链接)
图片来源:图:怀俄明州 Wind River 山脉(资料图,非事发地点)。Casey Goodlett 摄,CC BY-SA 2.0,经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The Wind River Range in Wyoming (file photo, not the site of the incident). Photo by Casey Goodlett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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