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M’Chigeeng honours residential school survivors, asks questions, on National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 23, 2021

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NIPD-MFN-shame-signs-in-front-of-shrine-w-Ogimaa-Linda-Debassige-and-Susan-Hare — NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DAY PROTEST AT CHURCH—A small group of protestors gathered for a protest outside Immaculate Conception Church in M’Chigeeng to highlight the church’s complicity in the residential school system injustice.

M’CHIGEENG - M’Chigeeng band members stood together on National Indigenous Peoples Day to honour the 215 children found in an unmarked burial ground on residential school grounds in Kamloops, British Columbia.M’Chigeeng First Nation Councillor Joseph Hare attended residential school in Spanish over five years. “It bothers me,” he addressed those present. “It seems like many […]

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Tom Sasvari https://www.manitoulin.com

Tom Sasvari serves as the West Manitoulin news editor for The Expositor. Mr. Sasvari is a graduate of North Bay’s Canadore College School of Journalism and has been employed on Manitoulin Island, at the Manitoulin West Recorder, and now the Manitoulin Expositor, for more than a quarter-century. Mr. Sasvari is also an active community volunteer. His office is in Gore Bay.