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Aboriginal essays
These are stories that I collected as I talked to the elders and other people on reserves that I visited. What I have tried to do is present a different point of view to accepted aboriginal history and culture.
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| The Lights Will Go Out |
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Tuesday, June 13 2006 @ 10:43 AM CST
By: Jack Funk
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The invasion of Iraq led me to wonder what the American agenda really was? The weapons of mass destruction was an obvious red herring. Would the invasion have taken place if Iraq had no oil?
The answer to this question led to the following essays.
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| My Journey of Faith |
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Tuesday, March 21 2006 @ 11:24 AM CST
By: Jack Funk
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I grew up in a very religious home. As a teenager, I had trouble accepting the "are you saved?" mentality. There were just too many gaps and contradictions in this ideology. I began searching for what I could believe. This is the story of that search.
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| And the Children Died |
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Tuesday, December 20 2005 @ 10:51 AM CST
By: Jack Funk
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In the years before Residential Schools became a big event in the media, I heard from my aboriginal friends horrific stories of their life at the residential schools. I found the stories hard to believe so I investigated further. Interviews, school records, death certificates, archives and gradually the story developed. It was worse than I expected. The schools effectively destroyed a generation, took away their culture, religion, guidelines. These schools effectively laid the groundwork for the many social problems we see in aboriginal people today.
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| Multicultural Canada |
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Wednesday, October 05 2005 @ 11:29 AM CST
By: Jack Funk
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This starts off as an editorial written by an unknown editor to which I have added my own comments. I invite my readers to add their comments.
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