{"id":373140,"date":"2022-11-27T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=373140"},"modified":"2022-11-27T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:34:42","slug":"did-western-philosophy-ruin-earth-a-philosopher-s-letter-of-apology-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/did-western-philosophy-ruin-earth-a-philosopher-s-letter-of-apology-to-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Did Western philosophy ruin Earth? A philosopher&#8217;s letter of apology to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a little girl, Roberta Hill survived four years of physical and sexual abuse in the Mohawk School in Canada, one of 139 residential schools designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children. An estimated 6,000 other children did not survive. Ms Hill, a Mohawk (Turtle Clan) elder once known to the nuns as #54, was raped twice by the school&#8217;s principal, an Anglican priest.&#8221;There were two ministers at the school,&#8221; Ms Hill recounted. &#8220;One liked the little girls and one liked the little boys . . . They were pretty brutalized, the boys, and if they weren&#8217;t getting beaten, they were being raped.&#8221; The schools were funded by the government and run by churches, primarily the Catholic Church.Ms Hill added her story to innumerable accounts of kidnapping, torture, and sexual and physical abuse in the residential schools. Children died of starvation, infectious disease, fire and, when they tried to escape, exposure. One of three possible punishments awaited children who spoke their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a little girl, Roberta Hill survived four years of physical and sexual abuse in the Mohawk School in Canada, one of 139 residential schools designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}