Indigenous communities in Ontario cautiously optimistic about Pope's visit
Elder Shirley Ida Eliza Williams-Pheasant, a residential school survivor, attended the Grand River powwow on Sunday. She told CBC News while a papal apology is a bit late, she's still glad Pope Francis is visiting to apologize about the church's role in residential schools.
"What survivors have been saying is the apology is a little bit too late," said Elder Shirley Ida Eliza Williams-Pheasant. "They think he should've apologized a lot earlier, and I think that myself." She hopes to see funding for language programs and resources after generations of Indigenous peoples were penalized for speaking their native tongues. Elder Williams speaks Ojibwe and Odawa. She expresses some hope that the Pope's visit might change things.
Watts has family that attended residential schools and said the Pope has to make clear in his apology that the responsibility lies with the Church as an institution, and not individual actors.
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