Saskatchewan residential school survivors respond to Angus Reid study on Pope apology
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Residential school survivors in Saskatchewan react to a recent study that shows 59% believe the Pope's apology was a step towards reconciliation.
An Angus Reid Institute study shows 59 per cent of Indigenous respondents say the Pope’s recent apology for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools was a step towards reconciliation.
Marieval residential school survivor Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier agrees with that as well.
“Reconciliation always begins with yourself and moves into family, community (and) nationhood,” she said. “Certainly each one of us in different ways accept that apology. It’s a driving force in order to make our future better.”
Day Walker-Pelletier first heard the apology from the Pope on April 1, 2022, when she went to Rome with the Indigenous delegation across Turtle Island. But hearing the apology in person on Canadian soil on July 25th in Maskwacis, Alta., Day Walker-Pelletier said it an emotional moment.
“When I heard him (apologize), I looked around at all of our survivors … with tears and, (they) had their heads down and they were grasping of what he just said,” said Day Walker-Pelletier.
“I felt that the survivors heard and that they embraced the apology. I was glad and I was happy that he did it and I was happy for the survivors.”
However, many others don’t share the same perspectives as Day Walker-Pelletier. Bevann Fox, a residential school survivor who attended the Lebret Industrial School, did not attend the papal visit in Edmonton.
Fox, who endured unthinkable abuses as child in the residential school, said an apology isn’t enough.
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