Adrian Jacobs gives the opening address to the Canadian National Gathering.

Haudenosaunee people met the Dutch in 1613 at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in upstate New York. A covenant was made, represented by the Two Row wampum belt, sealing a relationship between these two very different peoples. This covenant was continually renewed in another wampum belt, the Silver Covenant Chain, where the silver of the three links of this chain that tarnish over time, were polished bright once again. Adrian Jacobs, CRCNA's Senior Leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation, will polish the silver of this covenant agreement and bring us back to the early friendship forged. This early effort at relationship building is resonating today, renewing forgotten ties, and reframing Indigenous relations in the church.

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