This is so empowering to see proving that despite how hard the churches and Canadian government tried. They failed to "kill the Indian in the child" and that we will continue to flourish in our beautiful culture βπ½βπ½βπ½ and we will never give up.
Edit: Since some were a lil confused the quote above is about Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal/First Nations/MΓ©tis peoples, I used a quote that comes from Captain Richard Henry Pratt's (many commonly & wrongly attributes Duncan Campbel Scott in uttering the goal to "kill the Indian in the child".) speech in which he used the now well-known phrase to describe his philosophy of assimilation: "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man." The speech was delivered in 1892 during the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Denver, Colorado. The ideas expressed in Pratt's speech are central to the development of the Carlisle Indian School (founded 1879) and other boarding schools across the country, which aimed to "civilize" and "Americanize" the "Indian". (though Scott is often wrongly attributed to the phrase he is rightly associated with the expansion of the Indian residential school system in the 1920s and 1930s.)
Also I saw some ppl wanted to know what the shoes on the steps are, they are to represent/honor/remember the children who've died in residential schools as well as those who have never been found or brought home.πππΎ
Also, the dancing shoes she's wearing are known as traditional beaded or porcupine quill dancing moccasins, I saw a few ppl asking what kind of shoes the lil girl was wearing and thought I'd answer it here.β€πππ€
