Maskwacis Cree Tribal Council chiefs say they are also preparing for highly complex and conflicting feelings around the historic visit
Over 6½ years, listening to more than 7,000 testimonies from residential school survivors at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Chief Wilton Littlechild heard over and over the need for survivors to have a meaningful, personal apology from the Catholic Church for the abuse they suffered.
Pope Francis hosted an Indigenous delegation in Rome this spring, and apologized then for the conduct of some members of the Catholic Church. But many had hoped for a broader apology for the myriad and systematic abuses perpetrated against Indigenous children, and the Pope is expected to speak again about that harm while in Canada.
“When I listen to our survivors in our community right now they’re just deciding: ‘I don’t want to go, maybe I’ll go,’ ” Ermineskin First Nation Chief Randy Ermineskin said. “They’re undecided and it’s triggering a lot of things and feelings and emotions, and we need to support them.” Pope Francis is expected to arrive in Edmonton on July 24 and will travel to Maskwacis the next day for a visit slated to last less than an hour.
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