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

[Richard Zane Smith]

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 <
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
>



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