Pearl – Lent 24
Killers of the Flower Moon
Why did I know nothing about the Osage? I have just read the book. Not seen the movie yet. I thought I would be reading about events in the 18th Century and was shocked to learn that the events chronicled in this book occurred in the 1920s. We often hear that SLAVERY was America’s original sin. And a terrible sin it was. But what about stealing the land, plundering, killing, dispossessing, and cheating the Indigenous people of this land? How have we earned the title (mostly self-proclaimed) “the greatest nation on earth”?
Always Bridging 
There is a lot of history I do not know about non-whites. We unturn more of it at every Sacred Ground session. I often have the response you describe,“How did I not know?” Thank you for this post, Pearl—concise, clear, shameful.
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I felt similar disbelief as I read the book a couple years ago. The lack of our common awareness of this and other despicable acts on non whites speaks to the need for honest history records and journalism. I’m concerned about the
recently increasing book bans allowing more history to be erased
Have a blessed Lent.
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I salute the teachers and the librarians who are risking their own careers to defy book bans and Dolly Parton who has donated hundreds of children’s books to libraries. Ignorance is not bliss. That’s why Eve had to eat the apple!
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