CANADA
CBC News
A commemorative marker to survivors of residential schools, which is coming to more than 100 communities across Canada, was unveiled at Ottawa’s Wabano Centre on Wednesday night.
The circular piece of art has braids on the outside and imagery from different Indigenous cultures on the inside, a collaboration between five artists from different parts of Canada.
Once cast in bronze, they will be placed at or near 139 sites of former residential schools.
“It’s very much part of healing to us, to all of us who had experiences in residential schools,” said Ovilu Goo-Doyle, one of 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children taken from their families and forced into residential schools.
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