How Albertans will remember residential school survivors, victims on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CBC
The Alberta government, municipalities and schools have planned events that honour the victims and survivors of residential schools, as part of the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday, is No. 80 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's 94 Calls to Action. The provincial government will not observe the stat, but a number of communities and schools will.
"I see sadness, on one hand, for those that refuse to acknowledge memorializing children. It's time to honour children as a sacred bundle and gift. But to refuse to do that is very unfortunate and saddening," said Wilton Littlechild, a former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations and member of the TRC.
"[I'm] happy that some have agreed to commemorate the children who went missing and never made it home."
Many ceremonies focus on the revived trauma for Indigenous communities following discoveries of hundreds of unmarked grave sites near former residential school sites earlier this year.
The Alberta government will host an outdoor ceremony with Indigenous elders and community leaders.
"We must not limit our acknowledgement to the legacy of residential schools to just one day," said Adrienne South, spokesperson for Indigenous Relations Minister Rick Wilson, in an email to CBC News.
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