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I am Mohawk.
On this day of #TruthAndReconciliation and #OrangeShirtDay ...
Let me tell you how my family has been affected by #ResidentialSchools.
On this day of #TruthAndReconciliation and #OrangeShirtDay ...
Let me tell you how my family has been affected by #ResidentialSchools.
My Mohawk grandmother, my Tota was sent forcibly to #ResidentialSchool.
My great-grandmother Minnie (Who did not speak English) was told that she could not have her daughters back.
Undeterred, she went back in the middle of the night and helped her daughters to escape.
My great-grandmother Minnie (Who did not speak English) was told that she could not have her daughters back.
Undeterred, she went back in the middle of the night and helped her daughters to escape.
I am proud of this blood running through my veins, my great tota Minnie and my tota are warriors.
But the story doesn't end there.
For the rest of my life, my tota was terrified.
But the story doesn't end there.
For the rest of my life, my tota was terrified.
I ask myself would Jesus have dumped the flesh and bones of 215 children, one of them, a 3 year old, into a massive pit ? No tomb. No stone. No markers of any kind. The Church's mission was to “take the Indian out of the child” Seems to me they took the Christ out of Christian.
My thanks to documentary film maker @Alethea_Aggiuq "Details will emerge with a report..it’s likely many burials over time means it was a long held & known practice to hide the bodies of dead native children in unmarked mass graves.. a policy...deliberately continued and hidden."
My friend @KyleIrvingin Winnipeg, produced what many think of as the definitive film about Residential Schools. This was done for the National Film Board. It's called "We were Children." available at NFB.ca site and #AmazonPrime nfb.ca/film/we_were_c…
