Which means that the underlying title of these lands is still held by their original inhabitants. If we are on Indigenous land, and those lands are unceded, that means they were never sold or surrendered under war or treaty. But too rarely do we settlers think about what they actually mean. They are affixed to email signatures of public officials and university professors.Īnd often, these acknowledgements are heartfelt. They are the first words on the website of my son’s elementary school. They are spoken at the start of pretty much every public gathering. These kinds of land acknowledgements are so common in Canada that they have become a kind of bureaucratic formality. The land where I live is the traditional territory of the Shíshálh Nation. I am speaking to you from unceded Coast Salish territory in what is now known as British Columbia. If you are a survivor and need to talk, there is contact information in the show notes. This episode contains highly distressing details about the killing, rape, and torture of children. Naomi Klein: Welcome to Intercepted, I’m Naomi Klein, guest-hosting this special episode.įirst, a warning. If you are a former residential school student in distress, or have been affected by the residential school system and need help, you can contact the 24-hour Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line: 1-86Īdditional mental-health support and resources for Indigenous people are available here. Warning: This episode contains highly distressing details about the killing, rape, and torture of children. This intergenerational conversation goes deep on how the evils of the Kamloops school, and others like it, have reverberated through a century of Manuels, an experience shared by so many Indigenous families, and the Manuel family’s decadeslong fight to reclaim stolen land. Kanahus’s father, Arthur Manuel, was also a survivor of the Kamloops residential school. Doreen’s father, George Manuel, was a survivor of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, where unmarked graves of children as young as 3 years old were found. This week on Intercepted: Naomi Klein speaks with residential school survivor Doreen Manuel and her niece Kanahus Manuel about the horrors of residential schools and the relationship between stolen children and stolen land.
The nose was wrong, the nose was always wrong.Ī retelling of the Robin Hood story.Last month, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada. “Oh, come on! It doesn’t even look like me!” Eddie ripped the Wanted poster off of the wall of the tavern to take a closer look. Under_the_Starlight1 Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
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