Mary Woo Sims
Yesterday, in solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, members of the Tweed community held a ceremony at the Sacred Heart Church in Murwillumbah.
Australia and Canada’s Indigenous Peoples share a common history in that both were colonized with the impact that the first peoples suffered immeasurable pain and continuing systemic discrimination. Tweed residents held a ceremony at the Sacred Heart Church in Murwillumbah. Image Cindy Louise Vallet
A month ago, 215 bodies of Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves at a residential school, operated by the Catholic Church on behalf of the Canadian government.
These residential schools existed to commit cultural genocide. The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996.