Jonathan Maracle and Broken Walls

The St. James Reconciliation Ministry Program is hosting the words and music of Jonathan Maracle and Broken Walls on Saturday June 10 from 2-4pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Broken Walls was conceived in 1995 by Jonathan Maracle, (a Mohawk from Tyendinaga Territory in Ontario, Canada) while attending a conference called the Sacred Assembly in Ottawa/Hull. As different First Nations speakers shared, they spoke of the walls that have been built between the visitors to this land and the First Nations people, Jonathan began to see the need for these walls to be broken and wrote the song “Broken Walls” on the spot and performed it on the drum at this Gathering.