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Miigwech to our Elders

Thanks to Elders of Turtle Island: Shirley Horton-Kampa and Agnes Grover, of the Rainy River First Nations. Photo: Robert Animikii Horton

This is a sincere and humble message of appreciation and acknowledgement to the Elders who have made a difference in my life as teachers, counsellors and mentors.

To all those who have brought their strong and resilient voices forward in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

And, respectfully, this piece is dedicated to ALL our Elders across Turtle Island.

This is for all the Elders who we told how much they were appreciated; and all the Elders who we didn't remind, or who we don't remind enough.

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Majority of residential school survivors decline to give statements

Freda Bear to her mother Gertrude Walker. Photo: Kaj Hasselriis

Ruth Scalplock, a 66-year-old residential school survivor, came from Alberta's Siksika Nation to Winnipeg to attend the opening of the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings into residential school abuse. 

Not to make a statement to the commission, though. "I want to support the survivors," she said. The process of speaking out herself is too "painful."

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Interview with Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Murray Sinclair speaks about the process of the Commission gathering testimonies from residential school survivors, preparing recommendations, and what this history of genocide means for all Canadians.

Recorded 25 April 2013 in Montreal at the Quebec National Event.
More info: http://trc.ca

Video by Greg Macdougall, http://EquitableEducation.ca
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Uncomfortable truths: Dr. Marie Wilson on the history of residential schools in Canada

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"The indigenous capacity for forgiveness and reconciliation is almost beyond belief."

Few Canadians can speak with a genuine understanding of that capacity. Dr. Marie Wilson, who sits on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), is one of them.

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Residential schools called a form of genocide

While this is no surprise to babblers, it is the first acknowledgement of Canada's genocide by any official Canadian source. I hope that like the apology, this acknowledgement will fuel a broad conversation among Canadians about the corporate greed for land and resources, and the collusion of churches, governments, and police, that led to these abominable acts against children and families, throughout Canada's history. Greed has, and continues to deprive Indigenous Peoples of their ways of life, and now threatens us all with economic and environmental degradation and destruction.

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Building triumph over the shame of residential schools

By
Jim Quail
| October 28, 2010

"As I sat in the Chief Joe Mathias Hall and listened to the riveting accounts of the legacy of this deliberate policy of brutalization, I thought of my own sheltered childhood in a White suburb of Toronto, and of the portion of my weekly Sunday School collection donations at Thistletown United Church that helped finance the hideous abuse of other little children and their families."

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"NATIVE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS FORGIVENESS GRANTED"

Native Residential School Forgiveness Granted

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/12/residential-schools-forgivenes...

"Federal Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl has accepted a 'charter of forgiveness' from members of the aboriginal community as part of the healing process for survivors of residential schools. Chief Kenny Blacksmith presented the charter Saturday at the National Forgiveness Summit, a conference of Aboriginal Peoples in Ottawa..

Next week, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold the first major hearing into Canada's residential school system. The Commission was established to give survivors an opportunity to share their experiences and establish a historical account of the system.."

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