![]() There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related, or even loosely associated words. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to dabble, then there's probably no need for this. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. So for example, you could enter "play" and click "filter", and it'd give you words that are related to dabble and play. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common dabble terms by using the menu below, and there's also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get dabble words starting with a particular letter. The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with dabble, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The top 4 are: play, indulge, eschew and experimenting. It is a pity that the church did not recognize this when they first came to Canada.Below is a massive list of dabble words - that is, words related to dabble. And I don't believe for a moment that would be a stretch in any sense because, as I said above, the First Nations have had thousands of more years practice than the Roman Catholic Church. I might go even a little further and suggest that the First Nations symbols and offerings were much more meaningful and perhaps beautiful. Surely the prayers/chants/songs and dances offered up by the First Nations were as heartfelt as the Pope's offerings. The headdresses of the First Nations leaders were surely as beautiful and meaningful as the Pope's own vestments. I also took a little time to compare civilizations, cultures if you will. While my own art unfulfilled might not be a great loss to anyone, forbidding of thousands of students from speaking their own language must be a loss that is felt to this very day and will go on being a loss as long as our First Nations exist.Īnd again, like many of you, I watched as Pope Francis begged forgiveness from our First Nations. It is impossible, totally unimaginable, that someone could dictate that I could not or would not be allowed to use my own language in pursuit of my art. Like some of you, I dabble in the arts, and for the most part it consists of words, of language taught to me by my people. While my own art unfulfilled might not be a great loss to anyone, forbidding of thousands of students from speaking their own language must be a loss that is felt to this very day and will go on being a loss as long as our First Nations exist. Imagine further that you are a young artist - say a poet or prose writer - wishing to pursue your art in the only language you know and being told your language is for savages and must be forgotten. Imagine if you can the misery such torment would cause you. You cannot speak to other students in your own language you cannot write in your own language you cannot address your own people in your own language, nor send your prayers to your own Gods in your own language. If the gentle reader here can imagine, try a thought experiment whereby you are not allowed to say the words that are your very life's blood. In addition to the physical and sexual abuse, one of the most important goals of the church was to insure the students of these schools did not speak their own language. The Residential Schools apparently were the key to the transformation of our First Nations from peoples having thousands of years of history and culture to believers in the dogma of the Holy Catholic Church the transformation of our First Nations from a peoples who worshipped their own Gods and respected their elders to peoples who would pay homage to Vatican City.Īnd from all the evidence gathered by researchers, the transformation was brutal beyond imagining. And before they could be broken, they had to be educated in the ways of European civilization. And before they could be Christianized, they had to be broken. There is little doubt that even before the schools were established, the church hierarchy saw and treated our Indigenous First Nations as savages. Thousands of years before the Roman Catholic Church was ever dreamed of, Indigenous Nations of North and South America - from the tip of Patagonia, to the icy shores of Baffin Bay - were gathering around communal fires to cook their foods, tell their tales and worship their respective Gods.įast-forward to the establishment of the Catholic Church in Canada and the coming of its Residential Schools.
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