A grassroots movement led by people in the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, and their neighbors both on and off nearby reservations have set out to find a path to reconciliation between whites and American Indians. No government is taking part; no plan has been laid; no blame will be assessed; and no one knows how long this journey might take.
“Truth and reconciliation is not an event,” says Dr. Anton Treuer, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, one of the people facilitating the process. “It’s not something that happens in a week, a month or a year. It’s a process and it might take a really long time. If it’s just something short then it’s only something to make people feel good rather than to really change the culture and reconcile the historical experiences of diverse people.” Treuer is an author and a professor at Bemidji State University.
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