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The second thing: how they were created.
And thirdly, most significantly, how you and I can become allies for Indigenous people.
For me, personally, Yellowbird’s third point struck a tender chord.
I am aware the residential school story is going to be with us for decades.
With more unmarked graves of young, innocent Canadian children being discovered I have been struggling; struggling to find the right and thoughtful way to support and honour the fallen … and, also, find a way history never repeats itself.
Then Yellowbird answered all those questions and more by indicating what he envisions the two-day event to thoughtfully and ever so gently, nudge, the dial forward.