Toward a World that Works for Everyone
By Anonymous, briarpatch, September 2, 2021 https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/evidence-of-an-unjust-justice-system How would life look in our communities if prisons didn’t exist? If our communities had real opportunities instead of being boxed in both physically and mentally by government projects? If our people were uplifted, given a vision of togetherness and equality, not treated like crabs in a bucket […]
By Elisia Seeber, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, VIA, August 11, 2021 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/squamish-nation-to-investigate-st-pauls-indian-residential-school-for-unmarked-graves-north-vancouver-bc-4209814 Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) has announced it has launched an investigation into the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School site to find answers about the children who attended the institution but never made it home. On Tuesday (Aug 10) standing outside the site […]
Many who touched the pole during its journey ‘burst into tears because they could feel the energy’ By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post, July 29, 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/29/totem-pole-dc-native-american/ Douglas James stood Thursday on the Mall in front of the 25-foot totem pole he and a team had spent three months hand-carving and painting from a 400-year-old […]
Sharing his story with others became part of George’s healing process. “I was finally realizing why I was the way I was,” he said. “Why I had anger and why I rebelled against authorities, or, you know, why authority made me angry.” By Elisia Seeber, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Jul 16, 2021 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/squamish-nation-survivor-of-st-pauls-residential-school-shares-his-story-north-vancouver-3962077 WARNING: This […]
Nation the first to sign an agreement with Ottawa that sees jurisdiction over children returned. More than 52 per cent of children in foster care are Indigenous, despite making up 7.7 per cent of the child population, according to Statistics Canada in 2016. Cowessess First Nation Gets Control of Children in Care Julia Peterson, The […]
Backpacks with orange handprints cover the front steps of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building to show the impact of residential schools.
We listened to the older brother who recounted hearing the screams of his younger sister while she underwent the abortion of a priest’s child. He wept openly now because he couldn’t save her then. We listened to the 80 year old grandmother disclosing for the first time the daily rape and sexual touching she was […]
Canada’s tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S. James McCarten, The Canadian Press, June 27, 2021 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadas-tragic-residential-school-reckoning-110000079.html The situation in Canada took a dramatic turn Thursday when the Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School […]
A Way Out of a Dark Past By Stacey McKenna, YES Magazine, November 3, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/what-the-rest-of-the-world-knows/2020/11/03/canada-truth-reconciliation In the summer of 2011, Simon Hogaluk of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, sat at a microphone and began telling a story. He spoke through tears of being torn from his parents as a child and forced onto an airplane, where he […]
Accountability Thanks to David Hawkins. ‘Tip of the iceberg.’ By Katie Dangerfield. Global News, May 28, 2021 (https://globalnews.ca/news/7901509/kamloops-bc-residential-school-burial-site/) At least 4,100 children have died while attending residential schools in Canada. And in the wake of the horrific news from Kamloops, B.C. — where 215 children were recently found buried at a former residential school — […]
In the teachings of the Blessing and Virtue of Hope, Universal Mother Mary, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, said we are not to stand for children being shot, families going hungry, and inequality because none of these things are of love: “Violence against women has been the disgrace of our planet […]
The power of a red dress will hopefully inspire reconciliation and safety for Indigenous women By Brandi Morin, Toronto Star, May 4, 2021 https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/05/04/the-power-of-a-red-dress-will-hopefully-inspire-reconciliation-and-safety-for-indigenous-women.html On Wednesday, friends and families of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People will honour their lost loved ones with a lone symbol. May 5 is collectively known as the National Day of […]
By Elisia Seeber, North Shore News, May 2, 2021 https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/unstoppable-squamish-nation-elder-recipient-of-bc-reconciliation-award-xelemilh-doris-paul-3680964 “Incredible” and “unstoppable.” These are just two words that have been used to describe Xele’milh, Doris Paul, an inspirational Squamish Nation Elder and leader who has worked tirelessly for more than a decade for the betterment of her community and to further reconciliation in British […]
November 29th, 2011, Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, talked to me about “the construction of what we think of as New Earth, a new and different, conscious reality” and in the same breath, “the breaking down of illusions. . . such as lack, limitation, death, destruction, disease, greed, lust, control, power.” He went on to […]
City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/rezoning-for-new-indigenous-led-housing-project-approved-by-council.aspx Proposal addresses urgent need for urban Indigenous-led and managed new permanent social and supportive housing, and shelter beds in the Downtown Eastside. We are pleased to be working alongside the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and BC Housing to put reconciliation into action. ~ Mayor Kennedy Stewart, February 17 2021 […]
