CANADA
Metro
By Emily Jackson
Metro
It’s a chance to hear the truth about the injustices of Indian Residential Schools, to celebrate the resilience of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and to work towards healing and reconciliation.
The B.C. government has proclaimed this week Reconciliation Week to honour the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s sixth national event in Vancouver from Sept. 18 to 22.
The event, mandated as a result of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, aims to raise awareness about Canada’s government-funded, church-run residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996.
More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were plucked from their families and placed in schools with mandates to kill their culture. Many suffered physical and sexual abuse; others died.
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