Indian Day School settlement: survivors’ perspectives

We know this proposed settlement sgreement is not a meaningful step towards reconciliation. We know we can do better. We know we are entitled to a fair agreement built on our legal traditions, restorative justice and fairness. We have to stop holding out hope that it will come to us. Now we know we have to fight for it, as we always have.

'We have been fighting a long time to be heard, so our stories too will reach each other and other Canadians. We are fighting to be respected, so the dignity that was stripped from us is returned. We are fighting to heal ourselves and our communities. We are fighting for fair treatment,' write Alice Margaret Wuttunee, Gavin Baptiste, Gerald Wuttunee, and Carl Ninine who were all in Saskatchewan Indian Day schools.Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Opinion

BY ALICE MARGARET WUTTUNEE, GAVIN BAPTISTE, GERALD WUTTUNEE, AND CARL NININE

April 1, 2019

Just a little over 10 years ago, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) was implemented for Indian Residential School survivors. It was a meaningful attempt to compensate Residential School Survivors and to achieve reconciliation for harms and abuses that they suffered. We are ...

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