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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I don't care if they participated in a satanic ritual, Christian mass or if they summoned Yog-Sothoth, that has nothing to do with school, there should be no way for people to be expelled for something like that. And to top it off, it was a fucking dance ceremony.

At the time, her private school’s teachers were mostly white people who would often discuss the satanic nature of Apache traditions

Jesus fucking Christ...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing Apache traditions predated Europeans importing the idea of Satan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would agree, but it also wasn't a public school. Parochial schools in some places can be lax on the "Monday through Friday" type of school and focus on the Sunday School part.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WTF is a Lutheran school doing on a reservation to begin with? Why would any Native American even want to send their kids to it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

After reading the article and thinking about it more, I have another question:

Isn't it time to start considering missionary work to be a hate crime?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sick Yog-Sothoth reference.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

If you're surprised by this I envy your nativity and pity your ignorance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is wrong with people. Let people practice whatever they want. I get the school is private, but it's on a Native American reservation, what do they expect?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

what do they expect?

They expect to continue committing cultural genocide with impunity. That's literally their "mission."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


When I talked to Dr Robert P Jones, the president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization, he was dismayed that churches still teach against Indigenous tradition.

Apache members, teachers and pastors have been faithful leaders as our Wels churches strive to present God’s truth among communities with their own valued religious practices.

Referring to how white missionaries target communities of color and paint their converts as impoverished victims in need of Christianity, Jones, the Public Religion Research Institute founder, said: “I’ll put it as bluntly as I can.

He continued: “If you happen to be a Christian and of European extraction in some way, it’s a pretty powerful drug to think that your race and your religion were chosen by God and represent the pinnacle of human achievement.

The morning of Good Friday, Father John Cormack, presiding priest of St Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Fort Apache, agreed to an interview in his office.

Following a visit to the church, she got in her car to make her way back to Mesa Community College, but made one sacred stop at Oak Flat, a swath of land in the Tonto national forest of utmost sanctity.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh no! Our helicopters have been satanically cursed!

(It's customary to get permission from tribe elders before naming military equipment after them, and in the above case there was a Lakota dedication ceremony for the UH-72A Lakota helicopter.)