Aboriginals, the breaking of hearts, a Canadian problem
Consider: one clear morning government trustees arrive at your door and collect your children, put them on a train and ship them to a Christian boarding school....
Category: Violence
National Aboriginal Day—The Elder Project
On a Sunday in August, 1876, Reverend D. J. Burrell stood in front of his congregation in Chicago, not long after the battle of the Little Bighorn, and said: &q...
Framing Hiroshima within Easter
I am at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, it is Passion week, Easter has closed in. I am in front of an exhibit. Behind glass upon a circular stand is wha...
Madness, Christianity, PTSD, and the death of 16 Afghans
It is not inevitable that a mind perpetually primed by fear and fueled by the adrenaline of war finally comes to the end of itself and plunges into a deed unima...