![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mailhot leaves the hospital but she does not feel that healing. This clash would add to the fog of trying to recover from the darkness of depression and moving into healing light. “In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony.” This made little sense to Mailhot, a culture clash of white values and Indian beliefs. She recalls the group counselor instructing the women to learn to forgive themselves. ![]() Indian girls can be forgotten so well they forget themselves.”įinding herself hospitalized in a psych ward, Mailhot tells of her struggle to relate to the non-Native women in group therapy. “When she (grandmother) died nobody noticed me. “Heart Berries” is a most welcomed story by Mailhot (a member of the Seabird Island Indian Reservation of the Pacific Northwest) because she gives an honest, poetic, even healing voice to the many, many Indian women suffering in silence.īeginning with time spent with a Christian grandmother who loved carnations, canned milk and cooking without recipes, Mailhot learned at an early age the price Indian women pay. In her first collection of essays, Therese Marie Mailhot weaves a memoir that is lyrical and intimately revealing of a once guarded interior story of surviving abuse and mental illness. ![]()
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