"Blinded by their sense of superiority." Something we're still struggling with.
@leem3299
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for being honest about the past, and caring
@vickersthedoc
10 ай бұрын
Well said. Thank you for speaking truth with clarity. Reconciliation is not between us as First Nations peoples and settler lineage but the reconciliation that must happen for transformational change is to do as you have done, to speak truth of what is wrong and why and to reconcile with God.
@michelecraig9658
10 ай бұрын
Wow. I didn't even know this happened...however, this would be a much more meaningful video with some indigenous voices. What is their participation in this legislation? In a certain sense, establishing a listening comission also confers a legislated responsibility on native peoples affected to speak. Is this really their responsibility? Is this a responsibility they want?
@Morna777
10 ай бұрын
Well obviously they can't speak for themselves and need us to speak for them, right? /S
@mckenan3578
6 ай бұрын
100% agree
@carlamain8669
10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much Paula for this video and your ongoing work! Our Meeting is so pleased to have connected with your Right Relations work and we will continue to support you, Quaker Peace Teams, FCNL, and our local native neighbors!
@racheljessup-lx6er
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. It did a good job of briefly presenting the basics of the history and highlighting the long-lasting impacts that these Quaker Boarding Schools have had and continue to have. I appreciated the queries and suggestions for action and connecting with organizations working on this issue and also the effort to name and remember a specific person affected by this. I do see some comments wondering why indigenous voices are not included or why a white person is presenting this information. Speaking from lessons learned from conversations with BIPOC activists on being helpful to change, we have to remember that there is a difference between speaking out of place/for a population and amplifying/helping a cause. Educational videos like this one are so important to spreading the word and getting other people to care and be involved. In order for long lasting change to happen, the burden of teaching white people about this kind of history cannot just be placed on the people who are affected. If you feel called in to know more or help, learn directly from the indigenous led boardingschoolhealing organization discussed in and linked below the video.
@sentimentalbloke7586
7 ай бұрын
I neglected to say that 1. I recognize as a first nation person, and 2. I am a Quaker and was educated at the Friends school Hobart Tasmania.
@LillianHenegar
10 ай бұрын
I've followed through in writing to my US representatives in Congress and the Senate. FCNL makes it so seamless. Thank you for this video.
@Fishandloavesforall
4 ай бұрын
Lord Jesus break down my pride to ever put myself above anyone else. Make me meek and humble inside amen
@harleyquinn5774
9 ай бұрын
Damnit, my Quaker kin! 😣
@laofox448
8 ай бұрын
Yes, Quakers were one of the many groups asked by the federal government and, in many cases, tribal leaders to educate Native American children once ranchers, railroads, and other unscrupulous capitalist forces and tribal warfare made their previous ways of life impossible. Abuses were certainly too often commonplace in such schools generally, but to single out Friends as being especially malevolent and minimally benevolent in this regard doesn’t seem supported by evidence. As one Osage Friend recently asked: “What alternative was there to these policies? Grant's Peace Policy was called that for a reason. In that day and time, Quakers pursued and advocated policies that, painful as they often were in terms of unforeseen consequances, represented an opportunity for survival for Native peoples. When the alternative was war and genocide and since Friends often were responding to requests from Native American elders and leaders, it is unfair and inaccurate to label them as tools of the US government and its policy of cultural eradication. Quakers keenly felt the injustices that were perpetrated upon Native Americans by unscrupulous whites. My question, ‘What would others have had Friends do differently in such dire circumstances?’’
@abaddon2148
8 ай бұрын
History is multifaceted. If you view it entirely from one way or the other, you will miss something.
@ThomasElder-h8h
10 ай бұрын
Really? As Quakers it is reliant on us to seek and/or ask the government to enroll in an effort to undo a “wrong”. It is not the underlying meaning of Quakerism to empower or to require others to act on Gods behalf.
@bobnicholas5994
10 ай бұрын
Hopefully the Quakers involved in this believed they were helping her. Most importantly I hope God forgave them if what they did was wrong in His eyes. They thought assimilation would make their life easier.
@rooster1012
9 ай бұрын
It was by its very definition "Genocide", the whites knew exactly what they were doing and were extremely brutal to the children both physically and emotionally. In 2022, Native tribes and government officials discovered the bodies of more than 1,000 children on the grounds of former Indian boarding schools in Canada if there is a God then I hope he punishes them for the children they killed.
@harleyquinn5774
9 ай бұрын
@@rooster1012Assimilation is actually an example of ethnocide. The people are not completely wiped out, instead their culture is. Still very devastating.
@abriltdulin
6 ай бұрын
no - not superiority- they thought they were helping== have you read the Journals of the Quakers who ran the Boarding schools-- you can't judge them, you were't there== this is an example of your Superiority that you can judge and condem someone who cannot speak for themselves=== They were not allowed to speak their language like the Russians living in the Ukraine could not speak there language- will you speak out about that???
@ayrissaaliyah6014
10 ай бұрын
I think that silence is so pure how it adapts adjusts to react respond to embrace every manner, nature and transition caused by traumas, poverty disease conflicts mind body soul environments that, God presence abiding as eternal love, perfect and absolute does not deviate from being the one in control and this perfectly responsible for what our quality of life is every species concerned. Being exposed to free libraries is an epitomizing capitalists icon. A superior resource to measure oneself up to the world said to suffer by and then be given freedom space time to negotiate their innate values of mind body soul to resolve or at least a democratic viable consensus. I approach much of this with keen interest; to nullify any adulterous connotation knowing love eternal perfect absolute unconditional prepared us in silence for it's pleasure. Some die by animals rage or car rage or animal vs herbs as food or lack thereof. Love freely if there were no new presence continues obviously to give freedom to return it how you prefer. Silent competition to reflect the nature of between God's love and our craving attentions is absolutely exclusive and fit for his entertainment. Wanna sell? Let my people go. Sure He said, "Done"
@minui8758
7 ай бұрын
Of course the Quaker evangelism channel is recommending the heartfelt confession of (comparative to other denominations tiny) colonial abuses introduced with pronouns… classic Quakerism. If only meeting for worship didn’t make me so bored… hopefully I’ll mature into it 😅
@Morna777
10 ай бұрын
An issue that concerns indigenous people. Here's a white woman to tell us all about it!
@MrsFiam
9 ай бұрын
What do you mean? She is taking accountability and supporting pro indigenous legislation.
@olive3700
7 ай бұрын
Sorry Morna, you're the racist here.
@minui8758
7 ай бұрын
It’s a problem I’m sure the video makers were conscious of… if I know Quakers it’s probably based on who is clerk of the committee tasked with investigating complicity in the schools program. There were quotations from victims and in time I’m sure video footage of indigenous victim voices will be available should the victims want that
@sentimentalbloke7586
10 ай бұрын
We need to think of what the alternative lifestyle would have been for the natives not given these chances, a life of squalor, and possibly servitude. The days of living, one with nature were well gone. If you ever need a comparison then please tale a look at what was happening to the Australian natives at the same place in time, and still is.
@michelecraig9658
10 ай бұрын
I feel so uncomfortable with this comment. In a racist society how can one possibly know the experiences of people without listening to their experiences? Was it better or was it worse? Only the people who experienced it can choose.
@sentimentalbloke7586
10 ай бұрын
I recognize as a first generation Australian who was also born a quaker, Until recently we had no recognition as citizens and simply did not exist in law, our children were forcibly removed and taken and placed in on missions, and government run settlements, where men and women were used as slave labour. My race the Palawa were shall we call it integrated by sealers who kidnapped women to use as sex slaves etc. To my knowledge there are no full blooded Palawa left. I am sorry to have upset you, but for many First World Peoples an education would be sheer bliss, even in a boarding school.@@michelecraig9658
@hyndman106
10 ай бұрын
The Australians had the same kind of cultural genocide program.
@minui8758
7 ай бұрын
It may not have the same import for those in the US but the word “natives” is redolent with racist overtones from an English perspective
@sentimentalbloke7586
7 ай бұрын
@@minui8758I used that term only because I am not familiar with your terminology, here in Australia we are called first nation people, my apologies if I have offended any one.
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