Notes from "Beyond Land Acknowledgement: Toward Reparations and Healing"
Sept 30, 2023, Asheville, NC
These are my own comments and photos on this blog, except the photos of her power point presentation, those are Patty Grant Edgemon's.
Sept 30, 2023, Asheville, NC
Patty Grant Edgemon, Behavioral Health Specialist - "Healing from Historical Grief, Trauma and the Intergenerational Impacts of the Colonization Process"
Opening the door to considering the emotions and looking at the experiences of trauma.
Patty spoke from her heart, sharing her own story of being a daughter of a boarding school survivor mother, who passed that trauma down to her children.
And Patty spoke of the healing process, which continues as she shares. She spoke several times about how these details could bring up the traumas that members of the audience and other presenters might have experienced and how they need to find a trusted person with whom to share their feelings and experiences.
Patty shared a video clip (photo above) of Craig White (appropriately named) who gave his personal apologies to Tribal Peoples for the white colonial privileged ancestors and current day people who have done such harm to people of color, including the Native Tribal Peoples and enslaved Africans. This was perhaps the point where I most teared up in the program. Unfortunately I left the seminar without finding out more about him. (But I sure am planning to do so in the future)
Patty speaking with an audience member from another tribe who was welcomed also as a descendant of enslaved Africans.
The conference sounds like a great event, it is very sad how people like the Cherokee people and the slaves were treated. Take care, have a great weekend.
ReplyDelete...Reparations and Healing are things that we aren't good at!
ReplyDeleteIt is new to us, we can learn how to do it!
DeleteWhat an important gathering.
ReplyDeleteThanks...those who presented, and those in attendance would certainly agree with you. And more is expected to be shared in the future!
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