500 attend TRC [Truth and Reconciliation] event
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38293
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 March
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 March
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- "Kwanlin Dun First Nation Chief Rick O'Brien has urged Indian residential school survivors not to let the 'hard history' of the schools hold them back, saying they must move forward for the sake of their children and grandchildren. O'Brien, a second-generation residential school survivor, spoke at the Yukon regional Truth and Reconciliation event held Jan. 14 to 15 [2013] in Whitehorse. An estimated 500 people attended the event, co-hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) and the Council of Yukon First Nations. They included former students and their families, TRC commissioners, federal government officials and representatives of churches (including the Anglican Church of Canada) that operated residential schools. In his closing remarks, TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair spoke about the intergenerational effect of the schools. 'The children of survivors are also suffering. We will be dealing with this ongoing legacy', he said, citing how children and grandchildren of survivors are growing up with no sense of culture, language or tribal affiliation". [Text of entire article.]
- Subjects
- Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Anglican Church of Canada
- O'Brien, Rick
- Indigenous peoples - Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Education - History
- Sinclair, Murray, 1951-