Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language (fwd link)

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

Re: [ILAT] Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language (fwd link)I simply respond to people who ‘apologize’ to me or say, ‘I’m sorry....’ ‘Please don’t apologize to me or tell me you are sorry...just don’t do it again and/or fix it.’ Apologies, to me, are simply a license to repeat inappropriate action and I will not allow myself to be victimized by an apology. I see people repeatedly victimized by their willingness to ‘forgive’ perpetrators. 

  

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From: Dr. MJ Hardman 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:27 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language (fwd link)

Well said.  Some of us study the ‘apologies that aren’t apologies.’  MJ

On 5/25/11 2:10 PM, "Richard Zane Smith" <wlmailhtml:rzs at WILDBLUE.NET> wrote:


  on a similar note:
  Public apologies are big media events and becoming "the in thing"
  Apologies ought to accompany a commitment to undo damage that's confessed to,
  not simply a time for the abuser to get a hug and made to "feel better".

  as much as apologies are nice...many tack on disclaimers in fine print at the end
  to make sure no one can legally hold them accountable to their admissions.

  a public apology puts Indigenous people ON THE SPOT.

  To refuse to accept a public apology makes indigenous people look "unforgiving" and mean,
  and the "apologizers" as the ones turned away for seeking to right a wrong.
  but
  to accept apology gives the abuser documentation of "a public forgiveness" 
  a freedom from guilt, a sigh of relief that they may be now free from prosecution.

  Either way,an apology without committment to work to heal or undo damage,
  is merely an emotional "feel good event" for the party with dirty hands.


  ske:noh,
  Richard Zane Smith
  Wyandotte Oklahoma



  On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <wlmailhtml:cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

    Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language

    May. 23, 2011
    By Michael Swan, Catholic News Service
    CA

    TORONTO -- As Canada's Jesuits remembered their first steps on North
    American soil and the welcome they received from Mi'kmaq people 400
    years ago, the Mi'kmaq asked for a favor.

    "Maybe it's time for the Mi'kmaq to ask for your help in preserving
    our language," Grand Keptin Antle Denny told three dozen Canadian
    Jesuits and about 100 guests who had gathered to mark the 1611 landing
    of two Jesuits at Port Royal in what is now Nova Scotia.

    Access full article below:
    http://ncronline.org/news/native-peoples-ask-jesuits-help-preserve-language





Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú 
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ 

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