Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada (Tuesday, September 30, 2026)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Today, September 30 marks a Day of Truth and Reconciliation. It also marks the beginning of one week of reflection before October 7, 2026, the signing of King George the Third of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 from The Seven Years War, here in Canada, otherwise known as the French and Indian War in the United States of America.
Now, most people believe that the first European in North America was Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, in the Bahamas. Although he brought the Pope’s Docterine of Discovery, along in his expidition, But in actual fact, the earliest findings of Europeans in North America was much earlier than Christopher Columbus’s Voyage into North America. The earliest findings were the Vikings that took the Portage Trail over the Atlantic with their blown-out futile horns ringing victory where they landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and settled in Norse Settlement at L’Anse Aux Meadows in the 1,100’s where soon after their settlements were abandoned, as they left for other opportunities in the vast land we now know as Canada. Centuries later, after 5 other settlements, of European descent, Jacques Cartier a French explorer, came through the Hudson’s Bay and Down the Saint Lawrance twice, before making two settlements, in Eastern Canada, now known as Quebec. Cartier created New France and shortly after the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Fur Trade was established under the name “the Company”.
Because of the Seven Years War, British North America was established. It’s confederation was on October 7, 1763.
Here in Canada, there were many oppressions including the slave ships of Black African Americans in the early 1400’s and 1500’s, but Canada can not compare its oppressions as to the United States by any means; however, in today’s society, much of our countries are similar than they were in the past.
In Canada the first documented residential school was in Brandford Ontario “The Mohawk Indian Residential School in 1831”. The very first document of residential schools known was created under King William, Queen Victoria’s uncle through the Cardinals and Grey Nun’s of British North America.
Passing through time, the Grey Nun’s of British North America arrived at what is now Mainstreet on the Red River Basin at the Forks of the Red River Basin of Upper Fort Gary in the Red River Valley, Saint Boniface, Rupert’s Land on Summer Solstice June 21, 1844.
You must remember back then there were mainly three main denominations of Christianity, almost all the same with slight differences and as most of what is now Canada, of that land about 68% of what we now know as Canada was Rupert’s land.
Now, I can’t answer as to why The Hudson Bay Company was sold to the Canadian Dominion, but what I know as the Blue stripe (because I can never remember the name) what was and is known as The North West Company gave more monetary value towards the fur trade so many people like Louis Riel’s Grandfather Jean Baptiest went to The North West Company rather than Hudson’s Bay Company, until he couldn’t financially, for barter because there was much more competition and for most of the year when times were slow, The Hudson’s Bay Company was much more reliable and dependable, a place of barter that Indigenous peoples could count on. Because unless early Spring for three Weeks or going out of Autumn for three weeks the men of the fur trade would not hunt together in packs of 10-12, due to lack of animals they would hunt because of travelling means and weight of carrying the furs to the trading posts for exchange. Other then 6-8 weeks of the year They, the Lagimodiere’s included would usually travel in most two people or solo.
You have to remember the standards of living were much different than today, few had houses and if you did not crop and cultivate fields over Manitoba and Saskatchewan, of Rupert’s land, chances are indigenous communities traveled season to season, back and forth in their encampments where they lived in order to survive.
Marie Anne later traveled the fur trade for decades with Jean Baptiste, her husband, because she never saw him year-round. There were areas of the regions they traveled you wouldn’t go to, especially if you are taking your infants and young children as the Lagimodieres did. If you went to these regions, you could be killed or maimed and sexually violated, all of the above. The times and standards of care were very different than they are today. And if you got Ill you probably wouldn’t survive.
Marie Anne Lagimodiere was at the banks of the Assiniboine Basin under Main Street during the Grey Nuns arrival to create law and order in education for the Red River Valley and throughout Rupert’s Land, heading West. Apparently from what I witnessed today is the Grey Nuns created Saint Boniface General Hospital. Marie Anne was at the banks of Upper Fort Garry, out of support for conditions of life from her own witness of the conditions that was throughout British North America, for all the Indigenous peoples of the territory outside of her husband when her and her husband Jean were, at that time farmers who cultivated the land. Marie Anne Lagimodiere was in full support for residential schools, I can not speak of her husband’s views. But if the Grey nuns were to protect the children and transform them into respectful and dignified people, then why wouldn’t they get them fresh air for the decency of their health? And further more if it was a safety concern due to violence because of possible bartering at the trading posts fior shotguns and bullets, then why would you be involved in a residential schools system where your organizations stole every child and almost everyone in the communities knows where the schools are, but not where their own children are being displaced. But if this is how the churches were treating children, how could we have trusted their judgement in our own health of being in their hospital, and under their care as a patient?
But again, you must remember back then in the 19th century, it took balls being a Grey Nun or Priest or Indian Agent when everyone knew where the schools were and no one could find their children that you stole from them, because they were displaced around the provinces and territories away from their communities, not all, but most. To practice that lifestyle in Christian faith, to be of service to the most vulnerable in society was a conviction above any other, much unlike today where it takes limited effort, unless you go to serve in a third world country. And in times of war. Which now most everyone is protected by NATO. And there are people who sign up for military of all vocations and backgrounds of knowledge educations and expertise.
There were four main residential schools in Treaty 1 territory, and (what I recently viewed) was upwards of nearly 30 residential schools in what is Manitoba, alone. (I need to find their sources) But you must remember the main reason for these schools were because of the Metis rebellion and Metis resistance.
It was because of Louis Riel and the Metis Nation that the Indian Act was created in 1876.
Louis Riel, as most everyone at that time were tyrants and obnoxious, and thugs of the land.
Louis Riel was not hanged for treason. His hanging was his own doing, and because of his murder of a member of Canadian parliament, Thomas Scott, towards and his violent acts towards the state after the land was sold, that is why he was on trial to begin with. Louis Riel wanted 68% of what we now know as lower Canada, (not Lower and Upper Canada in Ontario shortly after 1867 during confederation) but as we now know it as, Louis Riel wanted 68% of what we know as Canada to be given to the Metis people in the Red River Valley, through his temporary provisional government.
Louis Riel chose death over life. John A. MacDonald would have kept Louis in an insane asylum where he would no longer be a threat towards the expansion of Canada. He would have also kept him there as a reminder.
The Indian Act was created because of rebellions like this (and others many decades prior like: Pontiac) when John A. was the agent in Indian Affairs. It was shortly after 1876 that Illegal legislations known as the Pass System soon followed and treaty rights on the east coast of the Mikmaw peoples started to change drastically and rights were violated in the prairies of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Pass System continued into the late 1940’s when the legislation was abolished.
There was an assessment done by Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce in the early 1900’s on indigenous communities and the link of child welfare of the state and to give his proposal(s) back to parliament in the coming years for advice and implementation.
The findings Dr Henderson Bryce had, a struggle to release under the federal government’s Duncan Campbell Scott of Indian Affairs, who refused to release his findings.
Dr. Henderson Bryce’s proposal that was later released in the 1920’s titled: “A Story of A National Crime” was that children living in residential schools were safer than in indigenous communities due to starvation and illnesses. He also found that there were more deaths in residential school’s than in these indigenous communities. The main result of death was tuberculosis (and other illness’s) but mainly tuberculosis in the chest due to poor air quality and malnutrition because of expired food due to lack of refrigeration other than cold rooms but lack there of in the late Spring and Summer heat. nd upwards of 76% of children in a treaty #1 residential school had died due to poor health conditions.
But Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce’s report did not mention the Pass System at all, where the federal government kept Indigenous peoples confined on areas of “reserve” unless authorized to leave for set date and time to return by, from an Indian agent of the federal cabinet, and if the Indigenous individual(s) returned late, they could be imprisoned or lose their right to live on reserve.
What would also happen is the North-West Mounted Police would go from settlement to settlement in off season and dismantle their encampments when the Indigenous communities would change direction due to seasonal change, where the state would put a flag of the head of state and the country, and the authorities would declare the community abandoned, and rightfully theirs to take property and further the expansion of the Canadian state. All of this after Manitoba became an official province. And Rupert’s land and Hudson’s Bay Company sold and owned by the federal government.
So, the main transition of residential schools into the 60’s scoop? It happened because of Right Honorable Prime Minister, St. Laurent who truly cared about welfare and peoples livelihoods for enjoyment of retirements from life’s vocation(s) of hard work.
(You must remember St. Laurent and many others at that time lived through the Spanish Flu, WW1, the Great Depression and WW2.)
St. Laurent created the closing of residential school system decades before they were abolished in Canada in 1998, George Gordon Reserve, Saskatchewan, because living conditions and standards of living had greatly changed for the better and the big boom of infrastructure for houses and businesses in the early 1950’s. And he, not comparing the two, but he just as Abraham Lincoln, it is not hard to understand that after many, many hardships, you would begin to question your faith with God, or become an atheist until your death bed, if at all.
The federal government, under Right Honourable Prime Minister, St. Laurent started implementing the transition due to the boom in housing shortly after the end of WW2. The conditions of livelihood were changing and it opened discussion on Canada’s main oppressions, for open debate.
St. Laurent basically started RRSP’s and other savings for Canada during his time in office for further financial stability. He strengthened welfare for those in need, but he is known for creating the legislation for the closure of residential schools, that did not begin transition until his successor John Diefenbaker, in 1956-1957, when the 60’s scoop began, but when the 60’s scoop began in 1956-1957, most of the hard work was already done.
It was under John Diefenbaker, in 1956 or 1957 that Canada’s welfare legislations went from federal jurisdiction to provincial jurisdiction.
It was then in 1957 moving forward that Indigenous children were basically for sale of adoption and were promoted in the local newspapers across the country.
The decision and vision of St. Laurent: Make Canada’s welfare provincial instead of federal, while keeping the main Act, the Indian Act, itself a federal policy. But at the same time, attempting to close residential schools and give these children up for adoption who are in those living conditions stated from Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce periodical (25-page document: book form.)
It was not until new years day January 1, 2020, that an act titled: bill C-92 came into force (to protect indigenous child welfare) becoming a federal policy under Right Honourable Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau’s government, the problem being provincial barriers with the Indian Act, and Part Two of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Act of 1982, and the conflicts between them.
There are still birth alerts in Manitoba.
The standards of living for the provinces and territories, of the set-standards across the nations of one nation; Canada, are not in many of these northern communities, proper living conditions but only a few.
There is a housing crisis and drug substance abuse crisis in many of these communities. The problem was and still is not due to many of the Crown’s and federal governments agreements. It is solely on the Chief’s and their own definition of Self-Government; nation to nation Government relations agreements.
These communities live in Canada, and unfortunately the way the system is, it is built that the Indigenous communities hold no more power than as much authority as certain jurisdiction departments of City Hall has within municipalities (not police), or less power, thereof.
The reality is, we have very different conditions of living today than our relatives and society has had just a century ago, up until after WW2.
The truth is, most of our oppressions have existed from the beginning of time and are not about to change. These oppressions are still relevant today as they ever were in the beginning of humankind.
These oppressions are:
1. Women’s rights
2. Racial Discrimination
3. 2SLGBTQIA+ Peoples
4. Education
5. Disability Discrimination
6. Sexual Activity
7. Status of household in Economic Society
Just a decade ago there were few books to find in local bookstores on Indigenous rights for most of the Canadian public, now these Indigenous books are much more accessible and much easier to find.
From my research for my English classes and self education, I learned most what I know on Indigenous cultures and heritage.
One thing I would like to point out is that the Canadian Museum for Human Rights dates and timelines are way off on Canadian culture and history. The Canadian Human Rights Museum greatly misses the mark in educating much of what has been found in my/this essay.
In 2018 our Attorney General and Justice Minister of Canada: Jody Wilson Raybould and our Crown Indigenous Relations Minister decided they wanted to abolish the Indian Act. And needed support in their action from Indigenous peoples and their communities.
After much thought and research, I found there is much good in the Indian Act for indigenous identification and representations. This started through Dr. Pamela Palmater, with Indian-Status. My understanding slowly evolved from studying the Indian Act of 1985 in 2019.
The 1985 Indian Act is much harder to read than the new Act released on Indigenous Vetran’s Day last year November 10, 2025, Indian Act. The newer act was a massive revamp than other amendments in the past after Right Honourable Prime Minister, Brian Mulrouney.
My main concern currently is of address is of, woman’s representation as compared to men.
It takes work and in many guidelines more thought to understand and agree or disagree with a section(s), but again this current act is much easier to read than the Brian Mulrouney Indian Act of 1985.
This new act was created under Honourable Justin Trudeau’s office, but only released and last modified to publish under the Right Honourable Mark Carney government.
The main problem I found in the Indian Act was under Indian Moneys as well as other authorities of interference for economic growth.
Basically, I don’t have a problem with the “Management of Indian Moneys” or economic interference, titled “Regulations” and here is why:
(section 61) The Chiefs of many of these nations are given moneys for their council of their band to decide how to spend that money based on the agreement that their nation agreed to with the head of state or leading government. If the Chief’s followed orders of the Crown and Federal policies to instruct council to disperse funds to the registered or unregistered band members of councel based on the agreement between nation to nation governments (Crown, Federal, Provincial, Indigenous), there would not be nearly as much disparity as there is in these northern communities. The Chiefs are embezzling their nations capital funds. This is only further reckoning away from the stability of their own personal economy’s.
And secondly interference for economic growth (titled “Regulations”). There is (section 73) of the Indian Act, where there are criteria for the Governor General to intervene and better quality of life for indigenous communities.
Here is my views:
If the Governor General of Canada, incarcerates the Chiefs and individuals who embezzled their Crown’s money’s, to better the quality of their own life as Chief instead of allocate funds properly for a better quality of life for their nationhood of peoples, they, the head of state would have a lot of capital to go directly back into the Canadian Indigenous Communities based on today’s standards of living with Federal and Crown agreements with their nations economic needs of stability from disparities.
A “nation” for indigenous peoples is a nationhood, or a group of people, not a nation as in terms of their control over a country. It is similar to a municipality that follows provincial and federal policy with funding from the head of state and province.
I consider Indigenous peoples, Indigenous Aboriginals. It is not what was meant in our Canadian Constitution and Charter when it was created in the years prior including 1982.
I am Indigenous and naturally born to Canada just as the first nations Inuit and Metis are. I, myself was born in the region of the Red River Valley of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I don’t have dual citizenship, or citizenship anywhere outside of Canada. My language is English, nothing else.
I am a native to my country, Canada, because I was born here.
Being Indigenous has nothing to do with blood quantum or blood relation, period. I am Indigenous to Canada, because I was born in the region of Manitoba, Canada.
There are many different terms of words and what each word definitions are in the dictionary. Words mean more than one thing in different contexts or ways of meaning. For example: I am Indigenous to Canada. I am a native to Canada. But, I am not an Aboriginal or an Indian to Canada or of any region prior to contact of the Vikings in Halifax Nova Scotia from the Portage Trail, from within what is now Canada, or anywhere in North America. prior to 1709.
My ancestors came from across Europe. Our first known bloodline in what is now Canada was in 1709, East of New France in Rupert’s land. My ancestor’s in Rupert’s land were farmer’s and made a great living until the great depression where their livelihood then had to turn and their living came from fishing for a few decades where my grandmother started a family on the land she was born on, while her father still fished and remarried decades after becoming a widow during the great depression.
It is true that most written indigenous documentation started with Arthur Emmanuel. And most every First Nations, Inuit, or Metis peoples and community has the same solutions to this problem. There solution is as follows:
1. Getting Land
2. Getting Money
Justice Murray Sinclair of Selkirk, Manitoba had the highest respects for Indigenous leaders and Indigenous followers: They all came to the solution, the solution being: Land and Money.
Justice Murray Sinclair was a very reasonable man, but he had a very different perspective, it was in his final words or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, that he never wanted to be a part of: His words after his 94 calls and all the summary recommendations were this:
“Education is what got Indigenous peoples into this mess, and Education is what is going to get Indigenous peoples out of this mess.” Justice Murray Sinclair.
But basically as I’ve come to understand and others either have or need to if they are able, is to get educated on what interests you and that something that you enjoy doing.
Because basically put: What Justice Murray Sinclair said aligns with what all Indigenous Aboriginal peoples believe the answer is for land and money. And all other Canadian heritages. The Honourable Murray Sinclair, was saying it nicely, and laid it on rather thick. His answer was for people to go to school and get a decent paid job.
In my opinion, If your too cool for school, then get a job, and live a very hard life, or start your own business and live a very hard life. Live a very hard life until you decide that education is the answer, both with an institution and also with self development.
Get educated and then get employment, because you don’t get a GED to work for minimum wage. You get the structure and organizational foundations through your GED to get post Secondary education opportunity. Just as you buy books on your understanding and desired focus after your institutional years.
And the reason you get educated is to either teach others independently or to get a vocational opportunity that benefits you. But, please remember, no one works for free, and nothing comes for free, there is always a cost. Always. Usually the cost is time, or time wasted. But this is usually time. You can always get money back, but not your time.
Just as Honourable Murray Sinclair suggested, with education,
You can get a job to earn money.
And with money you can save away for a rainy-day fund and put money away to buy land.
After much of my own reflections of the oppressions we face as a society, I’ve come to understand the most oppressive acts of legislation we have are no longer nearly as oppressive as they once were, when they were originally created, due to new economic standards of living with infrastructure, our technology and adversity we face to create the needed change for ourselves and to better our future.
Now, as I reflect on Truth before Reconciliation, today and for the next week, up until the 263-year anniversary of the Royal Proclamation in Canada, the 250 Anniversary of Independence Day in the United States of America. I must reflect on a few themes inside these main oppressions I have mentioned for true reconciliation of the truth, with much needed careful, critical and empathetic train of thought:
1. The Indian Act
2. The Crown’s separation of Prince Harry Winsor and Princess Meghan Markle.
3. The 29-year anniversary of Princess Diana’s death,
4. Charles Spenser’s Book on his Sister titled: ‘Swan Song’,
5. Princess Diana’s book titled: “Diana, in her own Words” and,
6. Prince Harry’s book titled “Spare.”
7. Fishing rights on the East Coast of Canada due to Churchill Falls Generating Station in Newfoundland and Labrador
To bring reconciliation as recommended in the TRC report, Honourable Justin Trudeau’s liberal government got an apology from the holy father, Pope Francis on Canadian soil. They also created legislation for Missing and Murdered 2SLGBTQIA+ Peoples, and created Bill C-92. and amended the Indian Act.
There is a new book I picked up titled: “Truth Before Reconciliation” by ‘Sean Carleton & Niigaan Sinclair’ about residential schools denialism, I have a number of other Indigenous books to read as well, but basically residential schools are a thing of the past, and education is able to give us sustainability that we need in today’s economy in order to thrive. Again both institutional education and self development and self knowledge through books.
A few books to bring perspective for this week outside of local articles CBC and the arts, are the following:
1. Indigenous Nationhood, Empowering Grassroots Citizens, Author: Pamela Palmater
2. Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Canadian National Geographic
3. John A. The Man Who Made Us: Author: Richard Gwyn
4. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: Author Richard Gwyn
5. Marie-Anne: Author: Maggie Siggins
6. Moon of the Crusted Snow: Author: Waubgeshig Rice
7. Moon of the Turning Leaves: Author: Waubgeshig Rice
8. Riel, A Life of Revolution: Author: Maggie Siggins
9. From Where I Stand: Author: Jody Wilson-Raybould
10. True Reconciliation, How to Be a Force for Change: Author: Jody-Wilson Raybould
11. Truth Before Reconciliation: Author: Sean Carleton & Niigaan Sinclair
12. Winipek: Author: Niigaan Sinclair
13. Who We Are: Four Questions for Life and A Nation: Author: The Honourable Murray Sinclair
14. A Story of A National Crime: Author: Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce
15. Whose Land Is It Anyway: Author Arthur Emmanuel
16. Unsettling Canada: Author: Arthur Emmanuel
17. The Reconciliation Manifesto: Author: Arthur Emmanuel
But to be a politician today and create meaningful change with any legislation to be of service for those you were elected, if the legislation is passed it probably betters all of society, which is not easy to do. And if you create that change for everyone in Canada or municipality your riding is in, then most always it is for the better of society within our oppressions that will continue to exist.
It’s important to note, just as a new draft that was passed by the senate of the Indian Act of recommendations by the Mikmaw territory in Halifax, just a couple months ago, the federal government is refusing to follow the court order. Just as Cindy Blackstock and the Caring Society tried for the last decade to get the federal government to follow orders of payments for indigenous children in foster care, the problem is much of it is only recommendations to discuss in parliament, with no penalty if they do not obey. Although it is important to note, the Caring Society made progress earlier this year with their class action lawsuit, mainly because the NDP leading government in Manitoba is led by Indigenous Aboriginals.
But my point of this is, as of September 23, 2027, all residential school documents are to be destroyed unless requested to have by the residential school survivor themselves or given to National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at University of Manitoba on request by the residential school survivor themselves. All remaining unclaimed residential school documents in Canada are to be destroyed due to sensitivity and privacy clauses passed by the senate from a recommendation of the 92 calls of action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, by Honourable Murray Sinclair.
I don’t honestly believe the federal government or provincial government will follow this delicate matter and destroy any documents. Every community and Indigenous person in Canada or any indigenous person who lived in Canada who would be First Nations, or Metis, or Inuit should be getting letters, phone calls, phone numbers and emails, and physical addresses and all contact information regarding how to contact the proper line of governments to obtain their residential school files.
But again, I don’t believe the governments are taking this seriously, outside of the current leaders in Manitoba parliamant. I’m not sure if any document will be destroyed. But again some documents may be destroyed by some to avoid further conflict. But the TRC Report and reasoning was only for reccommendations, the findings and rulings are not realistically placed in law. or there would be accountability.
There was also the 215+ unmarked Graves from Kamloops from red radar heat detectors of one of British Columbia Residential Schools and more across Canada. The grassroots movement that followed here in Manitoba that caused a threat to the Crown, even though many Indigenous leaders saw it as an art form of expression towards the pain and anger and sorrow, like honourable Murray Sinclairs son Niigaan Sinclair stated in the Winnipeg Free Press upon the vigilantees, saying something in terms of that the vandilism was a true talent of art expression of Indigenous people hearts and their talent was given through visual expression. But you must remember, these collectives together, dismantled, beheaded the North garden statue of Queen Victoria, and then threw her head in the Assiniboine River and followed by dismantling the statue of our sitting monarch on the East garden of the legislative grounds, they would have beheaded Queen Elizabeth the Second aswell, but her head was welded shut to her torso. They spray painted both statues with vandalism. and brought much haste.
But all in all, with all this said, I find it very interesting how in every religion, and on every continent, except for North America, every civilization was known to rise and fall. But Indigenous peoples were somehow known and able to survive it all, through their oral discussions at potlatches and feast gatherings, they were told they did survive or they wouldn’t exist. So it must be true, when every other living being on the planet died, time and time again, they conquered the unthinkable. I suppose there is no such thing as bacteria and fungus or Archaea that survives well below zero temperatures and critters like fruit flies and other many legged vermon critters that then mutate to it’s environments for survival of the fittest that eventually turn into mamals and the human species as we know it, time and time again! They must not have Monsanto in there pesticides and agriculture seeds and feed. It’s a miracle!
The truth has hard evidence before the tectonic plate shiftments and separations of continents, it’s well documented that everyone came from one woman in Africa. And since then civilizations risen and fallen before and after the separation into individual continents from natural causes.
I find it very interesting how every religion has the same lessons one way or another, simply told differently based on and because of, different environments of surroundings and societies livelihoods. (because of the community’s dwellings axis coordinates off the equator line dictating how they would live.)
But, nonetheless, at the beginning to the very end, it’s known that oppressions such as slavery existed with people of colour and the disabled, debts and monetary problems existed, sexuality, haste and prostitution and greed all existed. All of this existed in one form or another and continues to too to this very day. That such as in the Christian Bible of King James Version, being considered a virgin, as Mother Mary, or Queen Elizabeth the First, did not mean you lacked having sexual activity with others, but rather, you were considered a virgin because you were a person who truly served your country above all, you were a person who protected what you stood for, what your people stood for, because you stand and stood for the cloths of conviction in the very fabrics of your being. That is why you were considered a virgin. All because you stood by your morals you believe(d) in, and you still believe in your new views when they change due to new information technology, or when they stay the same you stand by the limitations and all of your personal weaknesses and fears that you strive to overcome.
You were considered a virgin because you did your best to help others rise up and climb the scale of Jacobs ladder, all because you were known to fight for your ideals and go to battle over the vision you have and believe in amongst, the great climb beyond.
Although we can not compare Indigenous Aboriginal oppressions to other horrific acts of violence in history, again such as the acts of slavery and lynchings of Black African Americans. This week are frames of thought upon Canada’s dark stains of our nations of one nation, Canada, Canada’s past.
We all know the story behind Orange Shirt Day, about clothing being taken away from Phyllis Webstad on her first day of school.
So wear an Orange Shirt today and read the newspaper articles in the Free Press and local papers in your hometown’s across Canada. Watch the news, listen to the radio, read blogs and listen to Indigenous artists. And view visual art of our country’s first peoples.
Today and this week, until the anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 this October 7; one week from today:
1. We Support.
2. We Stay Informed, and,
3. We Reflect.
It’s the right thing to do.
And just as Annie Bannatyne created the first General Hospital in Winnipeg, for a better quality of life for children and Indigenous communities from tuberculosis and other ailments of starvation and heat stroke and dehydration, amongst others the General Hospital that is now known as Health Sciences Centre… What is my point? Remember to mark it down on your calendars…This second week of October our annual Influenza and Covid_19 vaccinations will be available to the public at Shoppers Drug Mart, from open to late evening.
Oh! and Newsflash!
Go for a walk, open your windows, turn on your portable floor fans, get fresh free air in your lungs! But today, today you can forget the morning paper on your stop by the drug store to catch the mayhem of sadness and the country’s despairs of daily events at hands task, because the Free Press isn’t not being sold today, it’s a holiday.
As Stompin’ Tom and others on the East coast would say: “Get at it, to get to it.”
We are in the Hundredth Meridian my friends, and today we write, today we pack some food and water, we go out to the Forks basins, and today we just sit and write.
-Eric Walld
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