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July 25 2022
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Pope Francis expresses sorrow, asks for forgiveness for residential schools

Pope Francis says he is sorry for the Roman Catholic Church's role in the cultural destruction and forced assimilation of Indigenous people, which culminated in residential schools.
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''Pope Francis is wheeled beside Indigenous chiefs after visiting the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in Maskwacis, Alta., during his papal visit across Canada on Monday, July 25, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

"I am sorry. I ask forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the church and of religious communities co-operated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools," Francis said through a translator.

Francis spoke in Spanish, his first language, and it was translated into English by a priest. Translations were also available in several Indigenous languages.

The Pope said he feels sorrow, indignation and shame. He said begging forgiveness is the first step and there must be a serious investigation into what took place.

Francis also called the overall effects of the policies linked to residential schools "catastrophic."
 
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Where Pope Francis will be today — including a stop at an Alberta lake known for miracles

Large outdoor mass expected to draw tens of thousands
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July 26 2022 rbbm.
''..Later, he will arrive at Lac Ste. Anne, a lake about an hour northwest of Edmonton, that has been a place of gathering for both Indigenous and Catholic peoples for generations and where many people believe the water has healing properties.''

Those beliefs began with a Nakota chief who led his people to the lake, called Wakamne, or God’s Lake, according to the history of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, a community that still lives on the edge of the lake.

It then became a hub for the Métis, and the area’s first Catholic priest dubbed it Lac Ste. Anne in the mid 19th century. An annual summer pilgrimage now happens every July.

“Maybe unknowingly, this was a place of reconciliation, the coming together of two worlds: Indigenous and non-Indigenous, when the first pilgrimage to these shores was in 1889,” Chief Tony Alexis, of the Alexis Nakota Sioux, told media last week.''
 
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What's open and closed in Ottawa on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at what's open and closed in Ottawa on for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Sept. 30, 2022.
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''Friday, Sept. 30 is the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.

The day is meant to bring awareness and reflection on the legacy of Canada’s residential school system, which aimed to erase the languages and cultures of the Indigenous peoples of this land.

The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is a statutory holiday for federal government workers and federally regulated industries, but it is not a statutory holiday in Ontario.''

''Webstad was six years old when she wore a new orange top to her first day at St. Joseph’s Mission School in Williams Lake, B.C. in 1973.

She said the nuns seized all of her clothes, including the orange shirt bought by her grandmother.

“When I got to the Mission, they stripped me, and took away my clothes, including the orange shirt,” she explains in a short biography on the Orange Shirt Day website. “I never wore it again. I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t give it back to me, it was mine.''

Webstad is a third-generation survivor of the federal government’s residential school system, which operated for more than a century to assimilate thousands of Indigenous children into colonial culture.

She decided to remake the orange shirt into a symbol of resilience and remembrance for survivors and students who never came home.''
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Canada Posts launches four stamps recognizing residential schools and reconciliation

Canada Post is launching four new stamps showcasing Indigenous artists' visions for truth and reconciliation.
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''September 28, 2022 rbbm.
OTTAWA - Canada Post is launching four new stamps showcasing Indigenous artists' visions for truth and reconciliation.

The Crown corporation says this is the first in an annual series meant to encourage reflection on the painful legacy of Canada's residential schools.

The stamps will be released on Thursday, a day before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday.''
 
Sorry for so many posts in a row.
Sept 2022
''Thousands of indigenous children across Canada were taken from their homes and adopted into white families during the Sixties Scoop. Duane Morrisseau-Beck, Colleen Cardinal, Leslie Noganosh, Shaun Ladue and Tealey Normandin tell their stories at the Indigenous Adoptee Gathering along the Rideau river in Kemptville, Ontario on August 25, 2015. This video is from a 2015 story featured in the Star. Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2... ''
 
''Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools.

A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected.
Emotional and crisis referral services can be accessed by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.
KUU-US Crisis Line Society (B.C.): A First Nations- and Indigenous-specific crisis line available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, toll-free from anywhere in British Columbia. KUU-US Crisis Line can be reached toll-free at 1-800-588-8717. Alternatively, individuals can directly call the Youth Line at 250-723-2040 or the Adult Line at 250-723-4050.
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line (National): The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate help to all Indigenous peoples across Canada and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and offers both counselling and crisis intervention. Call 1-855-242-3310.
Kids Help Phone (ages 5-20, French and English): Call 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868''.
 
tarabull said:
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Radar shows 2,000 areas of interest at former residential school site in Saskatchewan - Canada News

The Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has discovered more than 2,000 areas of interest and a child's bone at the site of one of the longest-running residential schools in the country.
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Even if none of those children died from mistreatment (although being forcibly removed from your own home and forced to speak a foreign language qualifies imo), if they died of disease, illness or accident many of their parents never were informed. They never found out what happened to their children. Even if they ran away from the school, the parents were never notified.
 
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66 more potential graves found at former B.C. residential school

The search at Williams Lake First Nation is the latest phase of an investigation that made 93 such discoveries a year ago.
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By Jeremy Nuttall Jan. 25, 2023
''Chief Willie Sellars said Wednesday that more evidence is coming to light about the “horror and suffering” faced by Indigenous children forced to attend the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School, which opened in 1891 and ultimately closed in 1981.

“The history of St. Joseph’s mission and the land surrounding it is very dark,” Sellars said during a news conference.

“Documented evidence is growing every day as we explore archival records and interview survivors and their families.”

The latest 66 “reflections,” found in the ground during a technical survey using ground-penetrating radar, indicate the potential burial of children, investigators said.

Last year 93 such reflections of potential human burials were found near a historic cemetery on the school site, about 20 kilometres from Williams Lake and about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver.''

''The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse. The number is 1-866-925-4419.''
 
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