March 11. On this date in 1970, the NSA of Canada wrote the Universal House of Justice concerning difficulties "in getting the Indian believers on reservations to hold regular Nineteen Day Feasts" to which the response stated "to indigenous believers it is important that the process of weaning them away from the old forms should be accomplished gradually so as not to destroy their spirit, and your Assembly should not be too rigid in these matters."

 

March 11. On this date in 1970, the NSA of Canada wrote the Universal House of Justice concerning difficulties "in getting the Indian believers on reservations to hold regular Nineteen Day Feasts" to which the response stated "to indigenous believers it is important that the process of weaning them away from the old forms should be accomplished gradually so as not to destroy their spirit, and your Assembly should not be too rigid in these matters."

89. We have considered your letter of March 11, 1970 concerning the difficulties you are experiencing in getting the Indian believers on reservations to hold regular Nineteen Day Feasts.

In applying instructions about Nineteen Day Feasts, as well as other matters of administration, to indigenous believers it is important that the process of weaning them away from the old forms should be accomplished gradually so as not to destroy their spirit, and your Assembly should not be too rigid in these matters.

(3 April 1970 written by the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada)