Illustrated book teaches children about residential school tragedy

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Elementary school students at Laura Secord School in Winnipeg have spent about a year creating a book titled “Answering the Calls: A Child's View of the 94 Calls to Action,” which helps teach the 94 recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to other children.

By rewriting the recommendations and incorporating drawings, the children have made it easier for others of the same age to understand the horrors endured by Indigenous children in the residential school system.

“A bunch of the words were new to us including reconciliation, but learning about this meant we knew what they had been through,” Lily, one of the students involved in the book, told CTV News. The residential school program involved Indigenous children being taken from their homes and brought to government-funded religious schools that ultimately left survivors with years of trauma. It’s estimated that 6,000 of the children died.

 

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I wish we'd had this growing up instead of being sold stories of happy reservations and 'nothing to see here' that so many of us got. Canadian schools have lied to children for long enough. Glad to see change is here.

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