Forward of a deliberate assembly with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday, the chief of Williams Lake First Nation says schooling and residential faculty "naysayers" proceed to problem reconciliation efforts.
"We proceed to have people attain out, whilst late as at present, making an attempt to justify the advantages and the positives which can be popping out, and proceed to return out, of the residential colleges on this nation," Chief Willie Sellars informed CTV Nationwide Information B.C. Bureau Chief Melanie Nagy.
Trudeau is visiting the inside B.C. First Nation, two months after an preliminary investigation discovered 93 potential burial websites close by on the grounds of the previous St. Joseph's Mission Residential College.
The location is one in every of a quantity below investigation throughout Canada, with lots of of unmarked graves found over the past 12 months, together with roughly 200 on the former Kamloops Indian Residential College.
Sellars says "there can really not be any therapeutic with out reality."
Though he says he would not count on reconciliation to be achieved for generations to return, he says there proceed to be those that attempt to justify residential colleges, pointing particularly to the mayor of the native municipality.
A number of B.C. First Nations referred to as on Williams Lake Mayor Walt Cobb to resign final 12 months after he shared a social media put up speaking in regards to the "different aspect" to residential colleges and the way "new generations" of Indigenous folks "simply need to be victims."
Cobb later apologized but additionally chastised Williams Lake First Nation for publishing a letter in response, which he referred to as "a private assault."
By way of attaining therapeutic and reconciliation, Sellars stated, the "schooling part of all of that is going to be huge."
"However by masking the reality, we're going to have the ability to get there rather a lot faster."
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