‘Building relationships’: Truth and Reconciliation ceremonies bring together Indigenous members and local municipalities
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Across the region, communities and organizations held events to mark Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Across the region, communities and organizations held events to mark Truth and Reconciliation Day.
In London, one of those was N’Amerind Friendship Centre hosting a ceremony in the intersection of Horton Street and Colborne Street.
It featured Indigenous drummers, jingle dress dancers, and a plaque presentation from Mayor Josh Morgan to Indigenous artist Mike Cywink.
“Today's event is honouring residential school survivors and their descendants, but also recognizing and acknowledging those young ones that did not make it home,” says Brian Hill of N’Amerind Friendship Centre.
“A lot of people don't understand that as a young child five, six, seven years old, getting taken away from your family, taken to someplace that that has no meaning to you, it's part of that whole system that we need to repair and fix, and that starts with building relationships. That's one of the key things that we're doing with the City of London is building those relationships for a better future for all of our communities.”
Ninety-four proposed actions in a 2015 report call on all levels of government to work together to repair the harm caused by residential schools
