Monday, May 24, 2021

Looking Back in Order to Move Forward

It is common to want to put it all behind us and move on or move forward. Yet we must keep looking back until all the healing has been completed, in order to truly move forward. 

  The crimes, that have been committed against the Native American children and families in the Indian Residential Schools in North America, is truly a holocaust.
   The wounds are not only from long ago - the last of the schools, that forcefully tore native children from their families and imprisoned them, was closed in the mid 1990s. This is VERY recent. This is not about old history where natives and whites fought each other. This is about the cruel intentional destruction of the spirit and heart of masses of native children.
   In these schools the native language and spirituality was literally beaten out of the children in many ways. Many victims also report horrific levels of physical and sexual abuse in the Christian schools. The whole concept, even if there had been no severe sexual and physical abuse, is so cruel it is shocking that it was still happening so recently. (There is more in the videos in the right side of this blog.)

My heart deeply feels for the victims of the schools.
I hope they feel my hug in these writings.

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