The federal holiday recognizes the legacy of Canada\u0027s residential school system and its harms to Indigenous Peoples.
Back in Ottawa, Chief Dylan Whiteduck of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg noted the consequences of the residential school system can be felt to this day, including the loss of Indigenous language speakers.
Residential school survivors and Indigenous leaders were among the crowd of hundreds who converged on Parliament Hill for the commemorative event, where smudge wafted through the air. The federal statutory holiday was created in response to one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action, after ground penetrating radar found unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school outside of Kamloops, B.C.
Elsewhere, parents, grandparents and children gathered at St. Mary’s First Nation in Fredericton to mark the day. Excited children participated in drumming circles, singing and dancing on a warm Saturday. In Montreal, hundreds of orange-clad marchers walked from the base of Mount Royal to the pedestal where a statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister and an architect of the residential school system, stood until protestors toppled it in 2020.
“The whole purpose of was to kill the Indian in the child, to kill who they were, who they were born to, not to know their language, not to know their culture,” said Cathy Merrick, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. “But that’s going to change with our people. All of you here today are going to change that.”
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