Cherokee Forgiveness

Forgiveness requires an understanding of what needs to be forgiven, but forgiveness should not be something that is overlooked. The speaker Spent a long time detailing the atrocities that were perpetrated on the Cherokee people, and after a while I began to wonder when the subject of forgiveness would surface. When the subject of forgiveness came up, I was already distanced from the speaker because of her assertions about Europeans and her tendency to address the audience in an accusatory manner. The presentation was said to be "spiritual" and "life changing" and I was excited to be a part of something that was positive, but the lecture was more like so many "Europeans are evil" speeches I have been subjected to in the past. The idea of forgiveness was brought up at the end of the lecture, and held little resonance with the stories and themes that were discussed, leaving me to wonder how much of this was about forgiveness.