Many indigenous people struggle in today's world, suffering from what anthropologists have termed the 'loss of soul' - a condition that arises when the connection between people and their traditions and inner lives is broken.
When they have forgotten the language and prayers their fathers used to speak to the gods, land and animals. When they don't hear their ancestors and their ancestors are deaf to them. When they are nameless, uninitiated and like the living dead.
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