A lot of us are still running,’ residential school survivor says at Walk for Wenjack – CBC

Gord Downie fans launch commemorative walk for boy who died running away from residential school

Nov 21, 2016

Chanie Wenjack was simply a “trespasser found dead” in the eyes of a railway inspector when his frozen body was beside the rail line near Redditt, Ont., in 1966.

The 12-year-old run-away from residential school was always much more than that to his family back home in Marten Falls First Nation. Today, Wenjack is becoming beloved by Canadians across the country.

Over the weekend, dozens of people — Indigenous and non-Indigenous — took part in the Walk for Wenjack, retracing the boy’s last steps as he escaped Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential school in Kenora, Ont., and made a desperate attempt to walk hundreds of kilometres back home along the railway tracks.

A lot of us are still running,’ residential school survivor says at Walk for Wenjack – CBC

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