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CHILDREN'S PRAYER: THEATRE MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL RADICAL MEDICINE

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CHILDREN'S PRAYER
RADICAL MEDICINE THEATRE MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL
EXCERPT FROM 'HOMECOMING; CHIRICAHUA NDE' APACHE ODYSSEY'

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Taken from our parents
Boarding schools, orphanages
Parents farm
We’re home, they’re not
We’re taken from them

Missions vie to get and convert us
Make us other than what we are
Hard leather belts, sticks, whips
For speaking our language
To rain us its bad
What our parents share
Our traditions, culture
Are ignorant, wrong

Boy’s hair cut short
We only do this when someone close to us dies

We’re given the name of the dead relatives
This brings the ghost of that dead one to us
We don’t disturb the dead by speaking their names
They curse us with the names of their dead

Our culture honors each of us
With a name SOLEY our own
A name which reflects
Who we’ve revealed our self to be

Turned against ourselves
Captive in the belief nothing NDE’ is good
That only Christianity, being white is right

We children are trained to be
Seamstresses, cooks, manual laborers, farmers
Never doctors, lawyers, writers, medicine men
People with power

We’re never taught to be
Who we are
People of power

Our hearts and psyches destroyed
Minions of missions, white American culture
We’re set loose to infect anyone we can

“I was stolen by the Dutch Reformed church at Fort Sill.”

To be assimilated

Assimilation
Subsumation
Forgetfulness

Violence.

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released July 21, 2018
deCoy Gallerina: Playwrite, Solo Performance
Miguel Garcia: Soundscape
Rudradeep Chakrabarti: Director
Leeland Michael Darrow: Dramaturgi

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Radical Medicine.Theatre Movement International Oakland, California

deCoyGallerina
MiguelGarcia
MarkPino
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