I have been 'in transition' since last June, and will
finally be settled at - the end of November - in
Newberry Springs, California (mid-Mojave).
Among the things I've been unpacking, shuffling and
re-shuffling, etc. in my perhaps-efforts-in-vain to get
organized, is a bunch of correspondence from-to Daniel
Peaches (Navajo) - then Representative, AZ. He and I
were having an ongoing discussion regarding the merits
of removing Navajo children from the reservation and
placing them in Mormon-run off-reservation boarding
schools.
I was dead against it, having the knowledge that the
Navajo had Their Own Religion, which I didn't think
should be messed with.
Our communications came to an abrupt end when he wrote
that he was one of those children (and, of course,
brainwashed, I thought at the time). I'm sure his
intentions were the best. I just wish / wished he'd had
a more pure and simple background to speak from. I mean
purity and simplicity in the best sense, as based on
nature, and the religious tenets of the tribe.
Sandy
Their
> culture was deliberately and systematicallyU.S.
destroyed. First by the
> missionaries and then by the land grants (wholesale
murder) and finally by
> the boarding school system put into place by the
government.http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/nshrpoa%40highdesert.com
Yes, I have heard of the boarding school thing.
Bev
--
Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm Sleep well tonight, for
somewhere in the
ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
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