Indigenous workshop participants experience ‘dirty details’ of painful past – CBC

Goal of Mount Allison event is to figure out how to heal

Sep 28, 2018

It’s called “Building Bridges through Understanding the Village” — a workshop that takes participants from the time before Indigenous people first met settlers to the healing after experiences such as residential schools and assimilation.

Mount Allison University hosted the workshop on Thursday, opening it to staff, students and people from the community.

“It’s really great to watch other people take part, people that ordinarily wouldn’t know the down and dirty details kind of thing,” said Patty Musgrave, the Indigenous affairs coordinator at the university in Sackville.

Participants gather around a small village, represented by artifacts, and play the roles of children, relatives, elders, hunters and gatherers.

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