There are questions in life that can't be answered or explained away with a smart answer, I found myself in exactly such place this month... There are many things that happen on the Indian Reservations that never make the head lines, or the news. For decades the rates of unemployment, homicide, substance abuse and suicide, have been several times higher than the rest of the United States... The Indian Nations are free Nations, subject to their own laws on their own Lands. Over the last 6 weeks on the Apache rez in NM, six young people ages 14 to 26 took their own lives for no apparent reason!?? No these kids were not substance abusers or in a bad circles or any of the usual reasons one might assume. Even the parents could not fathom these tragedies ? I have tried to imagine being so down in spirit to take my own life... but I JUST CAN"T! There is always a reason to live, to strive, to be grateful... Life is a true gift !
Just as the moth within the cocoon must struggle to be able to become the butterfly, but more importantly the struggle is how the moth develops the Power of Flight...! Free the moth from it's cocoon any sooner... and it can not fly !!!!
The younger generations have lost the communication with their Elders and the bridge between them and their parents has grown wider... The elders also find this bridge between them has fallen aside and so a real crisis is at hand on most reservations, a crisis of identity that needs addressing... and to close this gap that has cut the young from their elders...
I have been invited to go back to the rez and speak with the entire Mesalero Apache School. I am honored, but I realize there is no simple answer to this problem...
Jay Tavare
JT>
Just as the moth within the cocoon must struggle to be able to become the butterfly, but more importantly the struggle is how the moth develops the Power of Flight...! Free the moth from it's cocoon any sooner... and it can not fly !!!!
The younger generations have lost the communication with their Elders and the bridge between them and their parents has grown wider... The elders also find this bridge between them has fallen aside and so a real crisis is at hand on most reservations, a crisis of identity that needs addressing... and to close this gap that has cut the young from their elders...
I have been invited to go back to the rez and speak with the entire Mesalero Apache School. I am honored, but I realize there is no simple answer to this problem...
Jay Tavare
JT>
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