We failed to hear them when they lived. We are obliged to hear them now. – Macleans.ca
February 10, 2022
The residential school children who rest in unmarked graves are lost to their communities. But the shared knowledge of their fates has its own compelling power. That is why they top our 2022 Power List.
In Secwepemctsín, the language of the Secwépemc, they’re called le estcwéý. The missing. The ones taken to residential school who never returned. Survivors of Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. spoke of them, as did Elders across Canada who were forced into the notorious facilities. An entire volume of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report focused on them.
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