Another way to go

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Dear Editor:

Before you read this I would just like to say that all that money the government is trying to avoid giving to Natives for residential school should just go towards language and culture renewal. I don't doubt that all those Elders that went to residential achool would love for their money, or part of it , to go towards the renewal of language and culture. It would just reverse the effects of all that s**t. And bring up a lawsuit against the church as a whole! I am not against religion. It is an OK thing as long as it works the way it is supposed to. But what they did was not "rightous" or an "act/want of god."

I am an Ojibwe from Thessalon First Nation, Ont., and my grandmother went to residential school along with all my other older relatives. And now the government is trying to say that she doesn't deserve compensation because she can't prove she went there! How can they say that she didn't go there when every Nishnaabe had to go there! She went to Spanish residential school. and when I ask her what happened to her there she just says "bad things."

And now about 150 years after all that, and that's not to say that it isn't over, I can't speak the language of my ancestors.

-Baamaapii