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Racism, spiritual terrorism and the loss of Indigenous culture are among numerous social issues being targeted by the Turtle Island Project - founded in northern Michigan in August 2007.

A pair of Midwest pastors launched the Turtle Island Project because they believe the world is sitting on the brink of important cultural, economic and religious issues that will either allow humans to prosper in harmony with the Earth or become the only species to cause its own extinction.

An Upper Peninsula American Indian tribe and several other groups are trying to stop the state-sanctioned rape and pillage of Michigan's northern wilderness by an uncaring mining company and it's minions.

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) strongly opposes the "acid mine" on the Yellow Dog Plains because sulfide mining tramples ceded territorial rights and the treaties of 1842 and 1856.

The Great White North: National documentary shines light on racism against Native Americans in northern Michigan

Nimrod Nation on Sundance Channel highlights Upper Peninsula quirkiness of rural life, passion for high school basketball, hunting and fishing

“Cowboys and Angels”: A free northern Michigan benefit concert to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the nation’s poorest American Indian reservations

Racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation were discussed at first Turtle Island Project Native American Roundtable in Munising, Michigan 

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, stands above the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians.

(photo by Jim Dahlheimer)

TIP NA Roundtable included discussion of Native American authors; Books by late great Native American author Vine Deloria Jr were discussed at roundtable

Turtle Island Project (TIP) Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard holds up one of several books on Native Americans during the TIP first Native American Roundtable and conference on Sept. 13-15, 2007 at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising.

North American Theology: Pastors call for profound change in Christian thinking; urge faithful to learn from Earth-based cultures like Native Americans, Celts & other Indigenous Peoples who value environment as sacred

Turtle Island Project: First Native American Roundtable and Regional Conference is Sept. 13-15 along shores of Lake Superior in northern Michigan

Turtle Island Project fights religious intolerance, racism, and other social issues that threaten the future of mankind

First Nations peoples asked to submit topics for Native American roundtables

(Munising, Michigan) - Exploitation of the earth, spiritual terrorism, religious imperialism, and racism are some of the modern day injustices that two pastors will battle with a new Michigan project that promotes respect for Native American culture and the environment.

Turtle Island Project: Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Schedule:

Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program

The Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program seeks to develop new theological resources and spiritual practices that reflect the place we inhabit, the continent of North America called "Turtle Island" by indigenous communities. It is our hope that these resources and practices will help imagine a new North American Theology with the assistance of First Nations peoples.