Neyaashiinigmiing chief delivers heartfelt speech at National Truth and Reconciliation Day gathering

‘We have endured all the strategies manufactured by colonizers and politicians who have taken our land and our resources. But those days are over.’

October 6, 2022 @ 9:16 amLocal News, News, Walkerton Herald-Times, Wingham Advance Times

Hundreds of people attended the remembrance walk held on Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30 at the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. (Cory Bilyea photo)
NEYAASHIINIGMIING – The Chief (Gimaa Kwe) of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Veronica Smith, spoke to the hundreds of people who attended the National Truth and Reconciliation Day remembrance walk on Sept. 30, delivering a heartwarming and eloquent speech acknowledging those children who never made it home from residential school. “First I’d like…
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Cory Bilyea is a reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.