An educational article worth spending five minutes reading.
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Early Catholic missionaries encouraged Aboriginal people to abandon their language and belief system and to fully adopt Catholic beliefs.
Today, Father Raass said that attitude had changed and he referenced Pope John Paul II's 1986 speech in Alice Springs to Aboriginal Catholics:
Your culture, which shows the lasting genius and dignity of your race, must not be allowed to disappear.
Do not think that your gifts are worth so little that you should no longer bother to maintain them. Share them with each other and teach them to your children. Your songs, your stories, your paintings, your dances, your languages, must never be lost.
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