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In Healing Haunted Histories, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers invite readers to consider how the call to follow Jesus is also a summons to racial justice and decolonization. They chart a path for how we can dig into our family histories to face our own “ghosts” of settler colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and white supremacy.
This 400-page book is equal parts: memoir (mostly focusing on Enns’ Mennonite family and community, who endured the Russian Civil War, fled the Soviet aftermath, and settled on Indigenous land in Saskatchewan in the 1920s); social analysis; theological reflection, and workbook for those ready to “do their own work.”
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Healing Haunted Histories explores how the history of genocide against Indigenous peoples continues today in racist and inequitable practices and policies. It urges readers to learn their own family and community stories of complicity, and models how to navigate these difficult waters. And it calls Christians (and other people of faith and conscience) to build solidarity with Indigenous communities, including experimenting with practices of reparation.
The story of Elaine’s family and community’s experience as refugees, as settlers on the Canadian prairies, and as neighbors with Cree communities invites readers to consider:
In Healing Haunted Histories, readers will find a faith-rooted approach to facing the violent and tragic history of settler-Indigenous relations, and what faithful responses for justice might involve, including:
Healing Haunted Histories outlines a “discipleship of decolonization” — practices that people of faith can embrace in order to build solidarity and partner in justice for and with Indigenous people and the land that hosts us all. It calls and empowers us to:
With its deeply personal storytelling, wide-ranging historical and social analysis and engaging theological reflection, Healing Haunted Histories is a companion for the Way of decolonization.