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Confronting ugly history of residential schools and identifying grave sites painful but necessary, chiefs say
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First Nations leaders in Manitoba spoke about the painful legacy of residential schools in Canada on June 24, the same day that a Saskatchewan First Nation announced that the remains of 751 people in unmarked graves were discovered at the site of a former school. Speaking during an online press conference during which he and Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) Grand Chief Jerry Daniels shared their thoughts on residential schools and how to deal with the abuses committed at them and their effect on Indigenous people today, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Grand Chief Garrison Settee said that acknowledging the country’s past is necessary. “It’s an ugly, harmful history,” he said. “Canadians must realize this country was founded on an aggressive assimilationist philosophy. You can’t erase this past. You must confront it and look at it for what it truly is.” Daniels said the mindset that motivated the creation of the residential school system still exists today in other institutions. “These institutions are looking to assimilate us continuously, even now today,” he said. “We have to be able to bring in the Indigenous, comprehensive, holistic approach to all these institutions to heal our nations. Canadians have to have our back in doing that.” Settee, who went to the site of a former residential school in Brandon last week where 104 Indigenous children were buried, 54 of whom were from First Nations that are now represented by MKO, said
Canada has no place criticizing other countries for human rights abuses on the international stage when it has not truly grappled with its own actions. “Canada can no longer hide the hidden truth,” he said. “We want the world to know that an atrocity was committed in this country.” He also said that churches need to make amends. “The onus is on them to fund some of these activities [aimed at identifying and investigating unmarked graves at other residential school sites],” said Settee. “In order for us to reconcile they have to meet us halfway and do their part. The churches should be ordered to give up any documents that would help in this process. I think the churches should not be allowed to hide anything now. The churches have to disclose all the information that they’ve hidden from us and the general public.” In a statement on the discovery of the 751 graves in Cowessess, Saskatchewan, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief Arlen Dumas said questions that need to be answered include what Canada and the Catholic Church are going to do about such discoveries. “I know in my heart this number will continue to rise across the country,” Dumas said. “These numbers are our people. They were our children, our loved ones, our ancestors. More stories will come out. Manitoba has already uncovered 104 in Brandon. They too will be painful but they are necessary. We will keep listening. We will keep offering space for support and healing where we can.”
Nickel Belt News photo courtesy of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee and Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Chief Jennifer Bone on June 17 at the site of Brandon Residential School, where there are 104 unmarked graves, about half of which are for children from First Nations that MKO represents.
Residential school news could trigger mental health crisis, says community health representative BY DAVE BAXTER
LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, WINNIPEG SUN
Karen Prince believes the news of hundreds of Indigenous children’s bodies discovered recently in both B.C and Saskatchewan could trigger a mental health crisis in First Nations communities because she knows how greatly her late husband suffered for years from his time in a residential school. “Before we got married my husband had issues with anger and with drugs and alcohol, and I had no idea what was going on,” Prince, a resident of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation said. “And one day he finally told me, ‘I’m a residential school survivor,’ and then I knew where his pain was coming from.”
Prince said her husband James Allen Prince, who passed away in 2017, told her of physical and sexual abuse he endured while in a residential school in Kenora as a child, but also about how hungry he and others were all the time because they were never given enough to eat. “Anytime he would see an orange peel he would tell me not to throw it out, because when he was in residential school they used to hide the orange peels because that helped them to survive,” Prince said. “He told me, ‘We took off the orange peels and hid them so we could eat them later, but if they found that we had them we were punished, they would beat us.’” And because of the way he was treated as a child,
Prince said her husband found it almost impossible to show affection. “This is why my husband couldn’t say ‘I love you.’ He had a hard time to say that because they were always told what they could and could not say, and told they could not share their feelings.” Prince said that for years her husband dealt with “triggers” in his life that would bring up memories of his time at a residential school. “There are these triggers for so many survivors, and it can be something small like that orange peel or something big like this news now about these graves and these poor children.” And as the horrific news continues to come out about
unmarked graves found near former residential schools in Canada, Prince now said she hopes there are resources available in First Nations communities to help those who may be triggered. Prince works as the community health representative at the Brokenhead Medical Clinic, a full-service medical centre and pharmacy in the community, and said they offer mental health supports for those looking for help or to talk to someone. She said she hopes that those who may be struggling reach out for help. In the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, about 100 km north of Brandon, Chief Normal Bone says he has those same fears about people in his community
dealing with mental health issues, because of the horrific news of the graves. “You see all the stories and the history of the residential schools and that is what is contributing so greatly to all this anger we see, and we have to find ways to respond to that,” Bone said. He said the community does deal with issues of violence and addictions and believes much of those issues stem from the residential school system’s effects. He also wonders if mental health issues could be triggered in some survivors who tried to tell people about the horrors they witnessed in the system but were often ignored. “For so long it seemed like no one wanted to listen
or even tried to listen, but now that we have found evidence, I hope this just wakes everyone up. “People can’t deny this anymore, they have to listen.” Residential School Crisis Line offers support An Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week in Canada for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of their residential school experience or the experience of someone they know. The crisis line can be reached at 1-866-925-4419. — Dave Baxter is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the Winnipeg Sun. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the government of Canada.
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Overall calls and crimes against property and persons rose from last year in RCMP north district this May BY IAN GRAHAM
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The Manitoba RCMP’s north district saw a 35 per cent increase in calls for service in May compared to the previous year, with crimes such as breakand-enter and theft under $5,000 increasing substantially from the same month in 2020.
RCMP detachments in the north district, which covers everything from Grand Rapids up to the Nunavut boundary, received 6,476 calls for service this May compared to 4,803 a year ago. The number is not out of line with usual call volumes, the RCMP says, and the low numbers in 2020 were
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likely due to pandemic public health orders restricting residents’ activities. The north saw a slight decrease in the common police activities category, which includes non-crime-related calls like missing persons, which rose by four per cent from May 2020, and wellbeing checks, which went up by 60 per cent from last year, from 82 to 131. Despite the drop, the north was still by far the busiest district in this category, with 996 incidents compared to 862 in the east district and 602 in the west district.
Crimes against persons are much higher in the north, which saw 815 such incidents in May 2021, compared to 401 in the eat and 346 in the west. Persons crimes were up five per cent in the north district compared to last year. Assaults accounted for most of these calls (635 compared to 630 last year), but forcible confinement was also up 13 per cent while robbery/extortion/harassment/threat complaints rose by 51 per cent. Sexual offences were down 17 per cent, from 53 in 2020 to 44
this year. May 2020 to 74 in May of Crimes against prop- this year. Theft over $5,000 erty are also higher in the was down 22 per cent, from north, with 922 incidents 23 incidents to 18, while in May compared to 825 possession of stolen goods in the second-busiest east dropped from 13 to seven, educentr.dumont@gmail.com a 46 per cent decline. district. The increase since 2020 in this category was Drug enforcement related six percent, driven mainly crimes were basically equal Andrea Dumont bySister a doubling in the number in all three districts – 61 of fraud cases, from sev- in the north, 60 in the east en to 15, and a 38 per cent and 59 in the west. There jump in theft under $5,000, were 44 drug trafficking much of it in the form of incidents in the north disshoplifting, which went trict this May, which is only from 10 incidents in 2020 one more than in May 2020, to 22 complaints this May. while the overall number of Break-and-enters also rose drug offences in the north significantly, from 58 in was the same as last year.
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Three men charged in connection to the 2019 killing of an 18-year-old in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) were sentenced to life in prison June 1 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Patrick Linklater was sentenced to life without possibility of parole for 20 years for his role in the February 2019 murder of Marcus Spence, who had found out that he was going to be a father just a few weeks before he was killed. Gerald Spence was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years. Russell Sinclair received a sentence of life without possibility of parole for 10 years. A fourth man, Waylon McKay, who was arrested in March 2019 for first-degree murder in connection to Marcus Spence’s death, still awaits trial. The murder prompted NCN to institute a ban on alcohol in the community for more than a month, which reportedly resulted in a 50 per cent drop in violent crime.
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