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Government Apology

Author

Letter to the Editor

Volume

15

Issue

11

Year

1998

Letter:

Money to deal with the healing for residential schools is, personally, not enough, because, I myself have been on this healing journey and have suffered through a lot of suicide attempts, drug abuse, alcohol abuse though residentional schools. I went through the abuses in boarding schools, the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and, personally, there is no way anyone can help us unless we go toward our healings. . . as psycologist in British Columbia said, Rod McCormick, through our traditional healings, our natural healings and give it all it deserves. And as for all of this money there is people that, I know for a fact, will be sticking their hands in this fund - fly by nighters. . . It's actually opened the doors towards the psycologist so that they can stick their hands into this big pot of money and not really know anything about the healing or the torment that people have gone through in these residential schools.

Mike-Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Sask