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

[Richard Zane Smith]

it would be an interesting study:
the anthropological cultural psychological apologetics of a culture of
apologies.

what is the root of : "i'm sorry" , " forgive me"
are there any indigenous cultures who use similar words.
Wyandot have a word that is translated as "I'm sorry"  *a'yetate'*
but honestly i don't really know what that means...
rzs



On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:

>   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.
>
> [image: image]
>
> _______
> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> "there was a time when we could list the problems...
> not anymore...
> the situation has outdistanced our ability to understand it...."
>
>  *From:* Dr. MJ Hardman <hardman at UFL.EDU>
> *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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