And last week, Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced preliminary findings of an estimated 751 unmarked graves in the community, about 140 kilometres east of Regina. The unmarked graves are at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
For many younger Indigenous people, they re only now starting to learn how their families were impacted by the legacy of the schools, Dumas said.
AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas said he was disappointed and a little shocked by the actions of those who toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II at the Manitoba Legislature on Canada Day.
His mother and grandparents went to residential schools, he said, but a curtain of silence over what happened meant he didn t have an appreciation of it until he was an adult.
For hundreds of people in Lethbridge, Canada Day is not cause for celebration. Instead, it s a time to reflect and mourn the loss of thousands of indigenous children who died at residential schools across the country. For those who ditched red clothing to don orange in support of the Every Child Matters movement, the impacts of residential schools and the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples nationwide is a conversation that is long overdue. As Indigenous people, you could see that we are struggling. It seems like no one knew why, because our history was never taught. I remember going to high school and only being taught a little bit about the Indian Act, said rally attendee Chate-lane Fox.
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#CancelCanadaDay? Canadian kids argue for and against CBC Kids News • Published 2021-06-29 06:00 We asked, you answered Should we #CancelCanadaDay this year? That’s the question we asked you last week after Victoria, British Columbia, and some other cities across Canada cancelled their Canada Day celebrations this year. Many Canadians started using the hashtag #CancelCanadaDay after, according to preliminary reports, the remains of 215 children were detected on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Those in favour of cancelling the annual celebration say that Indigenous communities are in mourning and cancelling is a way to show solidarity and to support reconciliation.
“It’s pretty emotional,” he said. “Particularly for survivors of residential schools.” Since the gravesites of the missing children were located in Kamloops last month, Tseshaht First Nation elected chief Ken Watts said he’s received at least one call every day from survivors with leads to potential sites. After consulting with hereditary chiefs, residential school survivors, council and staff, the nation applied to Ottawa, requesting some of the $27-million federal funding being made available to help communities locate children who died at residential schools. There are 139 recognized residential schools in Canada. If the $27 million was distributed equally among them all, Tseshaht would receive less than $200,000.