EVERY CHILD MATTERS

Our Community

Jun 3

With heavy hearts, we are reflecting on the tragedies suffered by Indigenous children across the country. At this time we will point towards resources for those beginning to learn, but personally we are grieving.

Lives, land, and generations lost.

Intergenerational trauma is very real, and multiple members of our team are descended from residential school survivors. We stand in solidarity with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and all those affected.

— Shayenna / Biidaaban Kwe

STATEMENT FROM SENATOR MURRAY SINCLAIR

Senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) shares a statement on the recent discovery of the bodies of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, BC.

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS DISTRESSING CONTENT

IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS:

National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419

Indian Residential School Survivors Society

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Shayenna Nolan

Shayenna is the Director of Communications for the Healthy Headwaters Lab as well as a PhD student. She is currently researching carbon and microbes in settler and Indigenous landscapes across the Great Lakes Basin.

EVERY CHILD MATTERS

STATEMENT FROM SENATOR MURRAY SINCLAIR

FURTHER READING:

IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS:

The Healthy Headwaters Lab

EVERY CHILD MATTERS

STATEMENT FROM SENATOR MURRAY SINCLAIR

FURTHER READING:

IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS:

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