Personally, I feel really hopeful for healing, for the deeper reconciliation work, now that this is in the mainstream media.
Change is in the air. . .
The Arcturians through Daniel Scranton, in their June 1st message had this to say:
We are so very happy to be able to give you our perspective on the energies that we can feel coming in for humanity and planet Earth in the month of June. In many ways, June is a month of new beginnings.
It is a month of you being able to receive energies that will assist you in making the big changes that you want to make in your own lives.
These are very supportive energies that are coming, but they are also energies that are meant to stir things up.
You are all meant to look at your beliefs and your behaviors, your thoughts, your feelings, your relationships, your work.
You’re all meant to evaluate the vibration you are offering and to see where change is needed, to see where you can be the one who initiates the changes.
In some cases, people there on Earth know that they need to make a change but choose not to for some reason.
In other cases, people will be blindsided by a sudden need to make a change, a change in perspective, a change in where they live, in their diet, in their relationship.
There is always change happening on your world, but you are at a time in human history where change is happening faster and faster, and there needs to be an acceptance to the changes.
By Thor Diakow, VIA, June 1, 2021
The pain of B.C.’s sordid residential school history is all too familiar for Tina Taphouse.
Taphouse is Interior Salish from St’át’imc Territory, specifically the T’it’q’et First Nation in Lillooet.
Several of the Langley photographer’s relatives attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS), which operated until 1969.
Her mother, Hilda Frank, began working at KIRS in 1964.
She even put Tina up for adoption in 1968, just so her child wouldn’t have to attend the now-infamous school, where the remains of an estimated 215 children have been discovered buried beneath the site.
“It’s sometimes hard for her to talk about it, to talk about everything.
There are some things I don’t want to ask; I don’t want to ask what she did at the school when she was employed there,” she explains.
Taphouse took a photo of the growing memorial outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, which quickly went viral on May 28.
“I had no idea that the photo would take off so fast, but people are apologizing to me on social media and just to see everybody talking about it, and talking about honouring the children, it’s very good,” says Taphouse.
While she appreciates the attention, Taphouse says much still needs to be done to address Canada’s fractured relationship with the First Nations.
“It’s great to be paying tribute, but we have to take action. . .”
Petition:
Call for a National Day of Mourning
for the Lost Children of Residential School
