‘It’s not for me’: Papal visit brings no comfort to some residential school survivors
Global News
Perry Omeasoo hopes that the Pope's visit and his planned apology on Indigenous lands come as a comfort to some, but he says the papal visit will bring no solace to him.
On his YouTube channel, Perry Omeasoo can often be found dancing.
The Samson Cree First Nation man enters his bright kitchen bobbing along to a classic rock song as he prepares to demonstrate how to cook a tasty-looking dinner dish.
“How you doing,” he says brightly to the camera, and it’s difficult to watch the short segments without breaking into a smile.
On camera, Omeasoo seems to radiate joy.
“I have a good life,” says the father of three from his home in Squamish, B.C. “But I tell people, I’m going to carry this darkness of being a residential school survivor until the day I die.
Omeasoo was five years old when he was taken from his family to attend the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in central Alberta’s Maskwacis community.
The institution, operated by the Roman Catholic Church, was one of the largest of its kind in Canada and was open for more than 80 years.
“I had a good spiritual kind of upbringing and then they took me away from that and put me into Indian residential school and what a change. What a difficult and ugly change,” Omeasoo recalls.
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