Through melodies, paired with stories of the horrific abuses committed by the Catholic Church, younger Indigenous delegates will deliver messages of truth and reconciliation
Metis fiddler Alex Kustorok will perform for Pope Francis next week at the Vatican as part of the delegation of 32 residential school survivors, elders, youth and knowledge keepers.The performers are going to Rome to support the Métis delegation.
“He didn’t go to [public] school for the first time until he was nine or 10 years old,” Mr. Kusturok said of his First Nations father. His father played guitar, but Mr. Kusturok was drawn to the tunes coming from his mother’s old Métis fiddle CDs when she wasn’t performing herself.Taylor Behn-Tsakoza is bringing a brand new pair of mukluks, made for her by her mother and her aunt, who is a residential school survivor.For Taylor Behn-Tsakoza of the Fort Nelson First Nation, in Northern B.C.
More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their families to attend the church-run, government-funded schools, where they were punished for speaking their own languages and practising their cultures. Thousands of students were abused, and many never returned home.
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