The film the Reverent:Salish native reflection
My native heart will make you weep. You’ll cry and cry and try to sleep…
The film, The Reverent, is a historic tale of early settlement in the United States. It is one side of a love story unveiled. I love the humanity not that a woman is more but her story is valued and long awaited. I love that finally we care not that she is more let alone an indigenous woman or child and as irreverent as the Americas have made them in our short history. This is but an opportunity to join humanely viewing from another perspective when the other side of the story is told.
The love story only shared through the lives she touched. Her voice silenced is given back again. The ones who have furiously dug graves knowingly dooming their own kin. The chance to redeem their status and stop the slaughter of her or be left feverishly to their debt. This is the return to humane treatment of these people, families and individuals dislocated, dismembered or left for dead.
One side of the story revealed through the American tale on big screen so we can embrace the next story with opened hearts. My indigenous native lady heart rejoices for I knew all along our value. We exist and death is a shared fate but to have others join our humanity not perpetuate self serving hate for personal gain. What a sweet relief. Missing murdered indigenous women will no longer be tolerated and accepted so readily in our society. Canadians, the Americas, indigenous self servers can no longer deny the roles played in this atrocity.