Author of the article: Scott Billeck
Publishing date: Jul 01, 2021 • 51 minutes ago • 3 minute read • A large group of people, many dressed in orange, walked along Portage Avenue in Winnipeg today. The contingent was one of several events intended to have the Indian Residential School experience recognized as a genocide. Saturday, July 01, 2/2021.Winnipeg Sun/Chris Procaylo/stf
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Hundreds gathered in a sea of orange at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on Canada Day, taking part in a march through the streets of downtown Winnipeg to call on the federal government to recognize Indian residential schools, day schools and the 60s Scoop as genocide.
Their lives were taken away … . It s really shameful, he said. By doing this ride, we might not make a big difference. But we are only trying to let the Indigenous people know that we know about this situation now, we are standing with them, and if there s anything we can do [in] the least, it s to ride there, pay our respects.
Jaspreet Singh is part of Royal Riders Winnipeg, the local motorcycle association that organized the ride.(Justin Fraser/CBC)
The convoy gathered in Winnipeg at Dhillon Automotive Group on Pembina Highway, Bava Dhillon s family business.
Dhillon, who is Sikh and a member of Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, says many of the motorcycle group s members are newcomers to Canada, and the ride is a way to teach them more about residential schools and the effect they had Indigenous people.