I have applied to participate in an eight-month "Indigenous Reparations Cohort" for congregational leaders led by Lutheran Theologian and Lakota leader Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy. It is a new program that provides resources and support to faith communities, schools, and organizations that are committed to education, solidarity, and reparative action alongside Indigenous Peoples. While many good-intentioned white organizations have adopted the practice of "land acknowledgements" that name and give thanks for the original indigenous peoples who resided (and sometimes still reside) on the land, it has become clear that this is not enough. Current Native activists and leaders such as Sherman-Conroy are calling for more--for repair of historic and current harms towards native peoples. I feel a special urge to take this pastoral and personal journey of discovery given that my family--the Ingalls clan of the Little House books--became an iconic version of white settlers taking possession of Native lands. They brought with them a presumption that the land, by "common sense and justice," belonged to white settlers. Such presumption came at the cost of genocidal campaigns against the tribes whose land they desired, and harm that deeply impacts native peoples today. Such white anti-racism scholars such as Jennifer Harvey and Robert Jones have argued that an honest accounting of harm--a reckoning with the truth of the past--must precede any efforts at repair. And serious efforts at repair, in turn, must precede the work of reconciliation. Yet the question of what exactly repair might look like means understanding the history, and listening to native voices today. The exploration made possible with this grant will, I believe, help develop clarity about next steps on this journey, and build relationships with others already at work on such issues who will be companions along the way.