City announces official location for permanent resident school memorial
The site was the top choice among the Indigenous people consulted for the memorial.
Sherri Kellock, the city’s Indigenous relations consultant who is a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, told Postmedia on Thursday that building relationships with the city’s Indigenous residents has been the office’s primary focus for the memorial. Gondek added the city will now work on the site’s design, and the construction is estimated to begin in 2024.
Meanwhile, Fort Calgary, by partnering on the project, is on its own journey to truth and reconciliation, said Jennifer Thompson, president of the organization.Advertisement 5“But for thousands of years, Indigenous people, certainly the Blackfoot people, lived on that land and called it home.”
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