Brock researchers reflect on traumas of residential school system – PelhamToday.ca
‘This is a moment where we all come together and reflect on the lives lost and the lives that continue to be lost’
Observed annually on Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation coincides with a time of year when parents trepidatiously watch their little ones scurry off to school. It also intentionally signifies the time when thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their parents and forced to attend residential schools.
Many experienced unspeakable traumas. Others never came home at all. Robyn Bourgeois, Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock, says it’s important to contextualize that Indigenous families are only a few generations removed from the closure of Canada’s last residential school in 1996.
