What would you do to remember a deep wrong? Would you ride over 300 miles, through the Dakotas and Minnesota on horseback, in the middle of winter as a ceremonial act of forgiveness and reconciliation? And, if asked, would you be willing to accompany the journey to document the healing as an act of service? Read this interview from Parabola with Silas Hagerty. Silas describes his experience filming the journey of Jim Miller, Native American elder as he and others called to enact a dream given him. The dream of a ride on horseback, to honor and heal the spirits of 38 Native Americans hanged in 1862, in the largest mass execution in American history. Learn how the bold decision to give freely, whether your talents or your forgiveness, bring forth all manner healing gifts.
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