Healing haunted histories : a settler discipleship of decolonization / by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers ; foreword by June L. Lorenzo ; afterword by Harry Lafond.
Publisher:
Cascade Books,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxviii, 392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Organizations cited. Storytelling in a haunted house -- Part 1: Archaeology: excavating storylines of displacement, trauma, and resilience -- Landlines I: Where our immigrant ancestors walked from -- Bloodlines I: "Remem-bearing" -- Songlines I: Traditions of resilience -- Theological interlude: two biblical warning tales -- Part II: Cartography: Re-vising storylines of settlement, assimilation, and dissidence -- Landlines II: Where we walked into -- Bloodlines II: De-Assimilating -- Songlines II: Traditions of restoration -- Healing hauntings: a discipleship of decolonization -- Annotated bibliography on recent intergenerational trauma studies / Sherri Nozik -- Longer biblical texts -- Organizations cited.
Summary:
Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present. Wounds inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. And it argues we can heal those wounds through the inward and outward journey of decolonization. The authors write as, and for, settlers on this journey, exploring the places, peoples, and spirits that have formed (and deformed) us. They look at issues of Indigenous justice and settler "response-ability" through the lens of Elaine's Mennonite family narrative, tracing Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines like a braided river. From Ukrainian steppes to Canadian prairies to California chaparral, they examine her forebearers' immigrant travails and trauma, settler unknowing and complicity, and traditions of resilience and conscience. And they invite readers to do the same. Part memoir, part social, historical, and theological analysis, and part practical workbook, this process invites settler Christians (and other people of faith) into a discipleship of decolonization. How are our histories, landscapes, and communities haunted by continuing Indigenous dispossession? How do we transform our colonizing self-perceptions, lifeways, and structures? And how might we practice restorative solidarity with Indigenous communities today?
Series:
Center and library for the Bible and social justice series
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.