Our Goal

Our goal is to short-circuit the process. This requires four steps.

First, people need to talk about their hurts. Boarding school victims are still alive today, and many have never spoken about it. Their children don't know why their parents are the way they are. No one is talking about this, and they desperately need to.

Secondly, the pain needs to recognized. One of the things we're doing is going to these schools, to their backyard cemetaries, and holding ceremonies for the unnamed and unknown children so casually and carelessly buried there.

Third, people must grieve. The tears are there -- either you cry them yourself, or you force them onto your children.

Finally, and most difficult, we must find a way to forgive. Without forgiveness, the truama will continue to eat away at each man, woman, and child. Forgiveness is the only thing that can end this hateful cycle.


We're delivering 10,000 names to President Obama on the last day of this trip, asking for a government apology. At every stop, however, we tell people that an apology will never bring about healing. If the apology is given, or denied, the true power still can ONLY come from forgiveness.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Apology-For-Indian-School-Abuses

We've already traveled through a lot of regions, and seen a lot of different religions practiced. I don't know who's reading this, or what your beliefs are, but we face a daunting task -- one that's almost overwhelming and one which might change an entire people.

We would appreciate your prayers.