They were “kidnapped” and imprisoned at the institution at the same time, he said, and attended the historic papal tour of Canada together “as family.”
An unknown number of children never returned home, having died from malnutrition, disease, neglect or abuse. Across Canada, ground-penetrating radar has detected some of their suspected remains at more than 2,000Pope Francis says pain of Canada’s residential school survivors felt ‘like slaps’ He did recall being asked to “bend over” by a nun who was inspecting the boys after showers, and being told he hadn’t done a good enough job scrubbing. He was beaten, he said.Mohawks who had private audience with the Pope weigh in on visit and apology to residential school survivors
“ only saying that a few bad apples did this to the Indian children,” Nicholas said, clutching his cane tightly. “For a hundred years, they did that.” The survivors attended the Pope’s mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré last Thursday, while young people from Tobique First Nation tended to a sacred fire back in their community.
“I assure you that in these meetings, especially the last one, I had to feel the pain of these people, like slaps — how they lost , how the elderly lost their children and did not know where they ended up, because of this policy of assimilation,” the pontiff said in unscripted remarks.
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