Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north.
Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
The decision to demolish the Lower Post school one of the few remaining residential school buildings in the country is the right one for the northern B.C. village.
WINNIPEG The health of First Nations children in Manitoba is lagging far behind other children in the province according to a new study. The study released Wednesday called Our Children, Our Future: The Health and Well-Being of First Nations Children in Manitoba is a joint project by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre, and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. It takes a village to raise a child, and I say this village called the province and federal government is failing, but it’s never too late to start, said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas.