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Healing the wounds of history
"History" makes it sound ancient and remote. It's neither. The abuse of whole cultures and peoples is, sadly, solidly in the category of current events, even if it's seldom treated as breaking news. While some indigenous groups do still suffer incidents of violence and land-grabbing, today's oppression is more commonly found as stereotyping, ignorance, neglect, exploitation. What about the history of abuse, though?
In many cases the motives were maliciously or ignorantly rooted in a belief of racial superiority. Migrating settlers encountered native populations and set out to marginalize or eliminate (or in a few cases coexist with) what were believed to be inferior or subhuman beings—the Australian Aborigines, Native Americans from Alaska to the Andes, the Bushman in southern Africa.
October 7, 2002 issue
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Healing the wounds of history
Warren Bolon
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letters
with contributions from Rich Allen, Susan Lapointe, Monica Karal, Walt Stockman, Jodie Kennedy
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items of interest
with contributions from Ann Geracimos
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Conversations about NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
By Warren Bolon Sentinel staff Photographs Supplies By Zonnie Gorman
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Listening to the Spirit: stories of history and reconciliation
By Sara Hoagland Hunter
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Illustrating the Navajo way
By Julia Miner
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A step toward reconciliation
By Peter Julian
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Reunion
Bettie Gray
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Going home by 'the rabbit-proof fence'
By Beverly Goldsmith Contributing editor
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How one person PRAYS about the West Nile virus
By Jenny Sawyer Sentinel Staff
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From barriers to bridges
By Marta Greenwood
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Beyond racism
Earline Shoemake
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Food for thought
Editor