Dear Editor: This is a very good and interesting article by Laurie Childers (July/August 3013). I love the sub-title: "Eleventh Gathering of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers." This is an overwrought word, but "awesome" seems to fit. I would dearly love to see a picture of this group.
I like the thought of history also being viewed as current. Certainly, this is the case in the African American community, of which I am a member. The Civil War really continues, really. (I wonder why Laurie didn't include the White/Black conflict among her examples; the only thing that probably prevented genocide here was the need for slave labor.)
I paused when I read her words, "shared history." It seems contradictory that an oppressor can "share" a history with its oppressed. At best, they occupied the same time in history.
Nevertheless, Childers seemed to have put her heart into this, for which I offer her praise.
Henry Organ