Justice and healing remain elusive for First Nations of Western Canada

By standing together with humility, against pain and injustice, the truth can be allowed to come forward, permitting the spiritual reparation needed for a future of love and fraternity—which all faith traditions around the world call upon humanity to realize.

Indigenous children, pictured in this undated photograph, at the Roman Catholic Indian Residential School, [Fort] Resolution, N.W.T. Photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY DOMINIQUE RANKIN AND MARIE-JOSéE RANKIN-TARDIF

August 2, 2021

Today, justice and healing remains elusive for the First Nations of Western Canada. Recently, the Lower Kootenay Band, a First Nations community in Western Canada, discovered the unmarked graves of nearly 200 people on the grounds of the former St. Eugene’s Mission residential school, near the ci...

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