Finding Home

L. Frank Baum who wrote the very famous "Wizard of Oz" held the universality of the quote "There's no place like home".

Before he wrote "The wizard of oz" he published two editorials in his communities news paper, in what was termed as a "back in the day" type of satire;
(which still contains plenty of offense) pointing out the brutality and illogical mentality of the typical white American at the time.

From The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer Editorial on The Death of Sitting Bull
“The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation?”

From The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer Editorial on The Massacre at Wounded Knee
“…our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.”

If Dorothy could ask L. Frank B. what "No Place Like Home" means today, I wonder what he'd say?

Once upon a time there was a girl who was scooped up from her Mother's home, and thrown into a whirlwind of foster homes...

Although this is a common story that many indigenous people share,
This story has relevance and potential revolution in that; we identify the crossroads we’re standing at in our society.
With the current acknowledgments of the residential school system in the minds of North Americans--The foster care system, we begin to recognize, IS the continuation and dark counterpart of this story of colonial violence towards indigenous people.

However, As The Wizard Of Oz is a universal story, so too is Finding Home.
Where displacement, cultural loss and loss of land is now the story being told, and it effects everyone.

It begs us to revisit the question what is "No place like home?”

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