Kimberley Daily Bulletin, June 04, 2015

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A long road to reconciliation A light was shone on a dark, troubling chapter in Canada’s history on Tuesday. The country’s churchrun, government-funded system of residential schools, which operated for more than 120 years, was officially branded a “cultural genocide” that tore apart aboriginal families apart. The massive report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair, was six years in the making. It interviewed almost 7,000 residential school survivors, documenting the abuse they suffered and the scars they live with. The report makes 94 recommendations which call for a complete rebuilding of Canada’s relationship with it’s aboriginal population. A key recommendation in the report summary is to create a mandatory, age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, treaties and the contributions of Aboriginal Peoples taught across Canada from kindergarten to Grade 12. And to Sophie Pierre of the Ktunaxa Nation, education is the key to being able to move forward from this troubled legacy. “There’s been so

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“That lack of education we have in this country. The continued disregard. There’s been so much already that’s been published, and yet we continue to have school systems that have the whole notion that this was an empty place when Columbus wandered in.” Sophie Pierre

much written about, so much studied, and yet there still seems to be so little that is known by Canadians, about the true history of Canada,” Pierre said in an interview with the Townsman. “Especially in regards to the history of aboriginal people.” “One continues to hope that eventually something is going to make an impact, and it’s going to stick. See PAGE 4

COURTESY LINDSAY PARK SCHOOL

The gym at Lindsay Park was full of science experiments last week for the Grade 3 Science Fair. Above Sadie B and her Cuckoo Crazy Celery.

Wasa woman off to provide maternity care in quake-stricken Nepal BARRY COULTER

A local woman is heading to a devastated area of Nepal, recently ravaged by an earthquake and series of powerful aftershocks, to help dozens of women on the verge of giving birth. Shelby Bay, from Wasa, is raising funds to put together birthing kits, and in two weeks will be travelling to the Pokhara region of Nepal to help rebuild a maternity

ward that was destroyed in the quake, and to offer maternity care. “There are 79 pregnant women in that area who are due in the next few months,” the 28-year-old registered nurse said. “Right now, they’re relying on a tent, which is being operated by a 19-year-old boy.” Bay is involved with what she describes as a grassroots, U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO), called Global Orphan Prevention, which does work in olf ay G Leagu nd

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Nepal. She got connected with this NGO through a friend who she met while trekking in Peru. Global Orphan Prevention had earlier built a maternity ward in the village of Rautesbi, about 100 kilometres from Kathmandu. After the quake hit, her friend went over to check things out, and found the maternity ward had been levelled. See Page 5


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