We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân

An antidote for the US still celebrating Columbus Day

     

This movie tells a compelling story that needs to be spread far and wide. It should be shown in all US schools. In all churches. It is redemptive and real. It does not gloss over things that the European Invaders did that were not pretty. It does not minimize the vast consequences, the pain, the suffering and all that has been lost. Just like Australia and Canada have done for their own healing, we, as descendants of the oppressor, must acknowledge what happened. We must be willing to feel the pain. To sit with it. For it resides in our bones whether we like it or not. And it affects our health and wellbeing so long as we ignore the big picture of colonization. We must pick it up before we can put it down. And in doing this, we bow humbly to those our ancestors have hurt and that we continue to hurt if we continue to treat them as invisible. Show this at Boy Scouts, youth groups, church fellowship hours. Watch it alone. Let it seep into your bones and affect you. Feel the grief. And let that begin to wash away the pain of the atrocities.