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A particularly horrific type of clergy abuse was perpetrated in the Native Residential schools set up by the Canadian federal government and administered with a number of Christian denominations. (Although the problem wasn't unique to Canada - apparently more than 80% of male children were abused by a priest and a volunteer in the small Native town of St. Michael in Alaska).Such stories are being shared more openly nowadays and there is a Truth and Reconciliation Committee set up to listen to accounts of children who were taken away from their families and sent to residential schools where they were often subjected to sexual, physical, and cultural abuse.
Although the book is a novel and uses fictional characters and setting, James Bartleman has succeeded in presenting the truth of the aftermath of residential school abuse by portraying a girl-victim of abuse, Martha, as she leaves her village to attend school away from her family and her people. When she returns from the school and tells her family of the abuse, her mother refuses to listen to her and Martha is sent back to school as the family receives much-needed money for each year she attends school.
When Martha grows up, the effects of abuse in her life and in the lives of other Native people who were abused are depicted in a moving way by Bartleman. The sense of hopelessness and the economic abuse of the entire Native community by civil and ecclesiastical authorities strikes deeply into the heart of the reader. In spite of the stark reality of oppression, Martha's family and people continued to love each other and sought to keep together as a family and as a people. They wouldn't ever be meeting the standards of success of the happy white middle-class families of the South... they had something deeper - a longing for and pursuit of achieving who God created them to be - and not what another culture thought they should be. A lesson in authenticity from which all can benefit.
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