Winnipeg Free Press By: Ryan Thorpe | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2021 Save to Read Later
The results of a sprawling, decade-long investigation by Manitoba RCMP into historic allegations of child sex abuse at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School have been sitting on the desk of the provincial Crown attorneys’ office for 17 months.
The results of a sprawling, decade-long investigation by Manitoba RCMP into historic allegations of child sex abuse at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School have been sitting on the desk of the provincial Crown attorneys’ office for 17 months.
That’s according to a justice source, who confirmed to the
At the mouth of the river.
In Anishinaabemowin, that is what Sagkeeng means. It is what the people of Sagkeeng First Nation have called their homeland, located on the lush banks of the powerful Winnipeg River, since time immemorial.
The Canadian government would rename that land the Fort Alexander Indian Reserve, as federal agents carved new territorial boundaries out of the countryside in the aftermath of the signing of Treaty 1.
But in the language of the people who call it home, it has always been Sagkeeng.
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Winnipeg River in Powerview and Sagkeeng.
Ever since Sagkeeng Chief Kakakepenaise signed Treaty 1 at Lower Fort Garry in 1871, band members have gathered for an annual celebration known as Treaty Days during the last week of July.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Cody Sellar Save to Read Later
Dave Rundle was 10 years old in 1955 when a priest came to transport him and his five-year-old brother Lawrence to Fort Alexander Residential School. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press)
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
It was the day in 1955 the priest came with papers in hand and the determination to steal away Dave Rundle, 10, and his brother Lawrence, 5, from their parents and grandparents, to force them into Fort Alexander Residential School.
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