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

[Dr. MJ Hardman]

Well said.  Some of us study the Œapologies that aren¹t apologies.¹  MJ

On 5/25/11 2:10 PM, "Richard Zane Smith" <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
> <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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