Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent.
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?.
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.
And they invite readers to do the same.
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.
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.
The authors write as, and for, settlers on this journey, exploring the places, peoples, and spirits that have formed (and deformed) us.
And it argues we can heal those wounds through the inward and outward journey of decolonization.
Wounds inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives.
Violations which inhabit every intersection of Settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present.
Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent
