As a Network we reiterate our support for the National Minga that has arrived in Bogotá from Cauca.
And we insist on dialogue, at all levels, to achieve peace and reconciliation among all and with Mother Earth.
We participated in the John Main Seminar, convened from Mexico, entitled Indigenous Wisdom and the Future of Humanity. The meeting brought together indigenous representatives from South Africa, Aotearoa New Zealand, Mexico and Canada.
The Encounter promotes dialogues between the Catholic Church and indigenous peoples by reviewing the wounds of colonization and the processes of trauma, healing and reconciliation. We have meditated together, expressed our points of view and the panelists have insisted on the need to heal ourselves as humanity by reviewing the exclusions of the past so as not to repeat them in the present.
Hilario Chí, a Mayan priest, and the representative from South Africa, emphasized the need we have to recover the time to listen to each other and to accompany each other. To build common horizons.
The indigenous representative from Canada, Ivan Rosypskye, has shared a healing project through the collective sculpture of a totem to symbolize the processes of suffering and reparation of the more than 634 indigenous nations of Canada and the thousands of children who were forced to pass between 1880 and 1996 through residential schools with the fatal motto: "kill the Indian to save the man". Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWr0gDNsxE