Truth, Healing, and Repair as a Pathway to Peace
Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 12:00pm Eastern Time, Zoom
Author Hilary Giovale will share stories of learning that her ancestors were early settlers, colonizers, and enslavers in the United States. Through relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands, she began developing an awareness about the harms of
colonialism that are still unfolding. She will detail a nine-year process of introspection that has helped her begin the process of building right relations, nine generations after her ancestors first immigrated from the Scottish Highlands. During this talk,
Hilary will refer to a guide to making a personal reparations plan, the resources available on her website, and her recently published book
Becoming a Good Relative.
Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer, and community organizer who lives on Hopi, Din¨¦, Apache, and Havasupai land in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is a ninth-generation American settler, descended from Celtic, Germanic,
Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships.
She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. She is the author of
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With gratitude,
The Zen Peacemakers Team
