ICYMI: “People say, ‘Get over it.’ It’s not something you can get over. If we, our Indigenous people, did that to non-natives, would they be able to get over it? Myself, if I did that to your children, would you ever forgive me?”
Marlene Thomas, a survivor of the Shubenacadie residential school who recently saw Pope Francis in Quebec, says she can forgive but never forget what happened to her people. - Logan MacLeanLENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. — When Marlene Thomas travelled to Quebec last month to see Pope Francis and hear him speak, it was the second time in 2022 she left P.E.I. to hear the words of the Catholic Church’s leader.
This time in Quebec, things went according to plan, but it was a large event without the opportunity to share personal stories. Thomas saw Pope Francis but only at a distance.P.E.I. government to defer to First Nations communities on question of possible residential school investigations Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous people for the residential school system in Canada during his visit to Maskwacis, Alta., on Monday, July 25, 2022. - Todd Korol/Reuters
Instead, she wanted him to speak about genocide and the impact residential schools had on the generations that followed and are yet to come.Elders and residential school survivors were seated at the front during Resiliency Day, a ceremony of reflection and education about Mi’kmaq culture, traditions and history that took place July 1, 2021. Marlene Thomas is being comforted by fellow Shubenacadie Indian Residential School Survivor Margaret Labobe-Provencher.
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