POPE'S ITINERARY-QUEBEC CITY, EDMONTON & IQALUIT
"The visit comes after the Pope’s historic apology last month for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools in Canada. The capital cities of Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit will act as bases for the trip from July 24 to 29."
George Arcand Jr., Treaty 6 Grand Chief, said he welcomes the news of the Pope’s visit to Treaty 6 Territory. Edmonton is located within Treaty 6 Territory. There are numerous residential school sites across the country identified for the Pope’s visit.
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“I recognize the impact the Pope’s visit will have in Treaty 6, to the survivors, their families and communities. My prayers are with the survivors — it is my hope we are on a path to healing and that survivors’ truths are validated with this historic visit to our Territories,” Arcand said in a statement.
One would think Ground Zero would be his first stop.
“This I do see as a missed opportunity to visit Tk’emlúps — ground zero — and hear directly from survivors and intergenerational survivors and offer more words of apology, retribution and reconciliation,” Casimir said.
https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/local-news/tkemlups-chief-disappointed-that-pope-wont-visit-reserve-5368026
Tk'emlúps Chief Rosanne Casimir. Dave Eagles/KTW
United States Catholic and Protestant Churches behaved similarly.
This July 8, 2021, image of a photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP)
"The Minneapolis-based National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has identified 367 boarding schools across the U.S., including 156 associated with the Catholic Church and various Protestant denominations. The coalition estimates that hundreds of thousands of Native American children attended those schools between 1869 and the 1960s."
Read more of how American churches were involved in the removal of children from their homes and how they were treated.
Here
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/10/08/methodist-lutheran-episcopal-native-american-residential-schools/
and
Here
https://www.jonathanmccormick.com/forum/residential-schools-tragedies
How many unmarked graves of indigenous children are in America?