Tag: Department of Indian Affairs

We Carry Each Other’s Memories…Residential School Survivor Commemoration

On July 13th a black granite sculptured monument was unveiled at Tobique First Nation to commemorate the residential school survivors.   The monument is topped with a sculpture of a leaping salmon to honour the children who were taken from their homes, families and communities.   Like the salmon,...

Hidden history comes to light

For over 100 years Canada’s Indian, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to institutional settings called residential schools, sometimes forcibly, sometimes under threat of incarceration if parents did not cooperate and always with the deception that what was being done was in the best...