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Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother’s skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want to be sent away from his family, and the Canadian forest where his Algonquin tribe lived.
But a police officer shoved his grandmother and grabbed the child. A few minutes later, he was herded onto the bus with other Indigenous children, and the vehicle pulled out, their screams and sobs still resonating. It was 1969, and Papatie’s life changed forever.
He was taken to a boarding school for Indigenous children at Saint-Marc-de-Figuery, not
If the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a Kamloops residential school is to evolve into a moment of healing or reconciliation, writes Karyn Pugliese a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz, it is important to unpack the anger behind it, understand the truth and listen carefully to what First Nations people are saying.