Here are some of the ways Calgary and area are commemorating the residential school victims this week
Author of the article: Stephanie Babych
Publishing date: May 31, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 2 minute read • Footprints are painted on the sidewalk across from Langevin School and signs were placed on fences calling for the school name to be changed on Monday, May 31, 2021. Calls are growing for the school to be renamed immediately following the discovery of a mass grave of children at a former residential school in Kamloops. The school was named after Hector-Louis Langevin who was the “architect” of the residential schools in Canada. Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvard’s campus this fall, she’ll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. It’s a “full-circle moment” for the university and the Martha’s.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) â When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvardâs campus this fall, sheâll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. Itâs a âfull-circle momentâ for the university and the Marthaâs Vineyard tribe, she says.
More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university â the product of its 1650 charter calling for the education of âEnglish and Indian youth of this country.â Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck1650 charter
âComing from a tribal community in its backyard, Iâm hyper aware of Harvardâs impact,â said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribeâs chairwoman. âItâs a symbol of New Englandâs colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Ameri