In "The Wind is My Mother", a partial autobiography by a Native American Shaman, there is a passage about what his tribe did when a member committed a bad act; the view was that when a person did something very bad, it was because that person was out of harmony with Nature. Instead of executing or somehow imprisoning the person, the tribe had the person taken to an island in the middle of a lake. There, the person was left with some provisions, in the belief that being alone with Nature would heal the person and bring him/her back into balance.

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