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Posted: Jun 09, 2021 7:30 AM CT | Last Updated: June 9
The singer from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ont., is now working on a personal project - an album of Indigenous music, or storytelling songs, as she calls them. She is also recording a new blues album.(True North Records)
Ojibwe singer Crystal Shawanda says she was shocked and surprised to win for Best Blues Album of the Year at this year s JUNO awards and feels like she s living a full-circle moment.
The 37-year-old from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ont., won for her album,
Church House Blues, at the awards broadcast on CBC Sunday.
Prayers, sorrow offered for Kamloops children A child s red dress hangs on a stake near the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School June 6, 2021. The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found at the site in May in Kamloops, British Columbia. Pope Francis expressed his sorrow at the discovery of the remains at the school, which was run from 1890-1969 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. CNS photo/Jennifer Gauthier, Reuters June 9, 2021
Updated 2021-06-08: Various updates throughout.
After praying the Angelus June 6, the Pope told the crowd, “With sorrow I am following the news from Canada about the shocking discovery of the remains of 215 children, pupils at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Province of British Columbia.”