What are you celebrating on National Indigenous Day?

I submit that we may celebrate. We honour the resolve of Indigenous leaders and communities who are continuing to fight the right to survive, to live, to thrive on this land.

Red Sky Performance dancers, pictured Sept. 30, 2019, at the Honouring National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. Rose LeMay is suggesting that Canadians celebrate National Indigenous Day on June 21, 'I submit that we might celebrate truth. After 150 some years, we have finally pulled back the curtain on the truth of residential schools. They were not to educate, they existed to extinguish Indigenous peoples, and yet we are still here.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

June 20, 2022

OTTAWA—Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc announced the rediscovery of 215 unmarked graves a year ago. Over the past year, a number of other institutions for the removal of Indigenous children (otherwise known as residential schools) have been searched: Brandon, Man.; Marieval, Sask.; Kootenay, B.C.; Kupe...

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