The pope stating that this person is someone saintly, or someone to be looked up to, or even revered or prayed to is giving the international message that what happened (to indigenous people), was by divine right, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people were killed all in the name of Catholicism and progress, so to speak.

Corine Fairbanks

Corine Fairbanks, Director for American Indian Movement Southern California. In addition to her work with AIM, she is an advocate for Environmental/Climate Change, “Indigenous Women’s Feminism”, Mental Health, and Recovery. “ All of these issues are directly and indirectly connected to our work with Environmentalism. "Working with our “Mother”, is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue, a life and death issue, and should not be isolated nor compartmentalized into something separate.”

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