First Nations people in Manitoba are calling for their non-Indigenous neighbours to have empathy about the toll of Indian residential schools after hundreds of children’s remains were found on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia.
Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north.
Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
The decision to demolish the Lower Post school one of the few remaining residential school buildings in the country is the right one for the northern B.C. village.
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