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Roberta Hill era apenas una niña cuando ella y cinco de sus hermanos fueron inscritos a la fuerza en un internado para menores indígenas. Con 70 años, la impactó enterarse del reciente descubrimiento de los restos de 215 niños, enterrados en el área de la Escuela Residencial India de Kamloops, en la provincia de Columbia Británica. [1] El hallazgo fue comunicado a comienzos de junio por la nación originaria Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. «¿Cómo no ibas a saber que tenías 215 personas enterradas», se pregunta Hill, «cuando los padres te decían “no me han devuelto a mi niño, quiero saber dónde está”?». «¿Quiénes son los responsables?», cuestiona.
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Douglas Todd: With anger and prayer, First Nation Catholics have distinct take on residential schools A First Nations deacon has a rebuttal to activists arguments that by remaining Catholic he’s merely a stooge of settler colonialists.
Author of the article: Douglas Todd
Publishing date: Jun 10, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 5 minute read • Many Indigenous Christians are angry about the defunct residential-school system. But they re also praying for their church and it’s ongoing reform, working towards reconciliation, says Deacon Rennie Nahanee. (Photo: Nahanee inside St. Paul s Squamish Nations Church in North Vancouver. Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG) Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
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But his opponent, City Commissioner Tyler Payne, says the plan isn’t that popular with the business owners he’s spoken with.
“He wants to completely wipe out our downtown area, and what that would do to our small businesses is just not what I want to see happen to our city,” Payne told Spectrum Bay News 9, speaking from the Fusion Resort Hotel. “I think that we can do it more responsibly, we can do it more gradually, and the property owners and the business owners that I’ve talked to are not interested in his plan.”