Truth and Reconciliation progress on education calls to action

September 1, 2021 @ 11:40 amNews

Residential School Survivors Dawn Hill, (l) Winnie Ashkewe and Roberta Hill walk with three-year old Aria Clarke in a memorial march for a young boy who ran away from the Mohawk Institute and was later found deceased, after being hit by a train on his way to his sister’s home in Toronto. The survivors hope that Clarke will have a better chance for education and cultural awareness by the time she gets to school. (Cory Bilyea photo)
Many Indigenous people in Canada raised on a reserve have not received the proper education required to obtain and maintain employment in mainstream society and have been condemned by many for this. This condemnation, created by the misleading and often untrue lessons taught at mainstream schools, and spoken around kitchen tables, is part of the…
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Cory Bilyea is a reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.