But as a person of both Native American and European descent herself, she recognized that people of European and other ancestries had a need for such a program as well. The founder of the program, Apela (Pam) Colorado, originally developed the program to help students with Native American ancestry connect with their heritage. Lately I’ve been reading a few papers by students and advisors of the Indigenous Mind program of Naropa Univeristy. All around me walks the shadow of domination, witchhunts, genocides, holocausts, sexism, racism. Above me looms the shadows of the spirits which I am blind to. Below me I march on the shadow of the lands my peoples have raped. Behind me trails the shadow of the tears of native people. Before me I project the shadow of forgetting where I came from. Like other white men something walks with me. Boxed into a box that likes to forget its name. Forgetting so much of how we came to be where we are. ‘ White is short for “socialized into a Eurocentered frame of mind.” White is the name of forgetting.
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