Wednesday, April 6, 2022
There is a reason why the Six Nations-Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) were not invited to Rome to meet the pope and secure an apology for the victims of the residential schools — we don’t want an apology, we want justice.
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse by the residential
schools administered by the Roman Catholic Church with the compliance of
the provincial and federal governments and it may well be proven
thousands died either by murder or neglect by the priests. nuns and
staff at the schools.
I was baptized into the Church as a child at the Akwesasne Mohawk
Territory. I was taken against my will to the Mohawk Institute in
Brantford, Ontarior, 600 kilometers (373 miles) from my home and, along
with the two dozen other Akwesasronon (people from Akwesasne) endured
sexual, mental and physical abuse while being denied adequate food and
health care, our bodies marked by open sores and rotting teeth leaving
permanent scars.
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