Sunday, May 01, 2016
Native Trauma
Peter D’Errico reports
that Native suicides reflect an infection of the soul by the disease of
silent despair, an unresolved grief from the civilizing of Indians by
Europeans. The ongoing loss of lands, resources, and ways of life, he
says, leave Native communities in a state of perpetual mourning as each
new generation is born into “a world in shambles”.
