‘What drove me is the children’: Longest-serving chief in Canada presses pope for justice
This was in 1981 – a daunting task back then. Not only because of her age, but also because she took the reins at a time when few women sat at decision-making tables in Indigenous communities or elsewhere.
gave the delegation of 14 First Nations survivors, elders, leaders, youth and knowledge keepers an extra hour of his time. The representatives are seeking a papal apology on Turtle Island for the incalculable pain and intergenerational trauma caused by state and church-sponsored. They have also asked the Holy See for all documents held by the Roman Catholic Church that pertain to the 139 institutions of assimilation operated between the 1830s and mid-1990s.
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