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The silence out of the premier’s office has been deafening.
It has been more than two weeks since freshly pressed Indigenous Affairs Minister Dr. Alan Lagimodiere made his now infamous statements about residential schools giving Indigenous kids the skills they need, justifying the actions of settlers as “They thought they were doing the right thing.”
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NDP Opposition Leader Wab Kinew interrupted his scrum to correct the record and note that the intention of the residential schools was to “kill the Indian in the child.”
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And last week, Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced preliminary findings of an estimated 751 unmarked graves in the community, about 140 kilometres east of Regina. The unmarked graves are at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
For many younger Indigenous people, they re only now starting to learn how their families were impacted by the legacy of the schools, Dumas said.
AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas said he was disappointed and a little shocked by the actions of those who toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II at the Manitoba Legislature on Canada Day.
His mother and grandparents went to residential schools, he said, but a curtain of silence over what happened meant he didn t have an appreciation of it until he was an adult.