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REGINA A statue of two nuns in Wascana Park was painted red on Tuesday evening, the second time the statue has been marked in recent months. The hands and feet of the two nuns were painted red and red X s on both statues. The Provincial Capital Commission, which oversees Wascana Park, said the matter was reported to the Regina Police Service. RPS said Wednesday it s investigating the incident. The statue was first painted shortly after the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Residential School on Cowessess First Nation. Jason Bird, a lecturer with the First Nations University of Canada, says these types of incidents could be motivated by the grieving process Indigenous people have been going through with these discoveries.
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DELMAS, SASKATCHEWAN – For elder Jenny Spyglass, returning to the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan where a search for unmarked graves is underway brought back memories of what she lost.
Spyglass, now in her 70s, was taken to the Delmas/Thunderchild Indian Residential School, located 160 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, when she was three years old.
Her brother died there of starvation at age four, she said.
“This is where they took my culture away,” she said. “They took my language away from me. They took that love away from my mom. A two- or three-year-old girl would love to have their mom with them every day, every morning, feeding them, loving them. I didn’t have that, growing up.”
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