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The Voice of North Dundas
Vol 5, No 20
October 3, 2024
Reconciliation: more than one day a year language, and found it hard to communicate with their parents and siblings. They were even unable to join in prayers and ceremonies. Others discovered that a level of education denied to their ancestors was another barrier that they found difficult to overcome. For non-Indigenous people in this country, there has been an awakening to these truths, and a growing desire to help in the reconciliation that is needed on both sides in order to heal the wounds of the past. That can also be a problem, as well-intentioned people have acted without truly learning the full truth of the past. Misleading media reports are accepted without question, especially if they paint the darkest picture of the past, and produce a simplistic viewpoint that fails to see the details, the variations in the experiences of Indigenous children across time and geography. There can be no reconciliation without truth: that is a basic fact. How can we be reconciled when we have an incomplete or inaccurate picture of what we need to be reconciled about? This is something that all of us, Indigenous and nonIndigenous, have to do: the “history and the legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process”. People may know nothing of the
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legacy of residential schools in the history of Canada and the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. How far we’ve progressed in learning that history, much less understanding the legacy is not encouraging. Meeting with representatives of the various Anishinabek communities affected by one particular residential school recently, it was pointed out that truth can be hard; not just the terrible facts and the multi-generational impacts of what boys and girls experienced in the schools, but also facing the truth that many children actually enjoyed their school days. The structure and friendships experienced fitted well with their personalities. For many others, school was hell on earth. What has always impressed me over many years has been the resilience, the strength of so many survivors, as they tried to break
the cycle of trauma that impacted them and their families. Boys and girls caught for as long as a decade or more in an environment that denied them love, warmth, family, went on in time to become parents with their own children. Many found it impossible to express love, provide warmth and support to their own children because they had never known such things themselves. Others found themselves passing on to the children the same negative behaviours they had learned in residential school. Generations suffered long after the schools themselves closed. There were positive aspects too: education opened doors that would otherwise have remained closed; but at what cost? Children spent time in school, then returned home to find a barrier had been raised: some no longer understood their own cont'd on page 2
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