Residential school survivor Sheldon Day Chief had mixed reactions to the Pope's apology.
“Today was a reckoning,” Day Chief said. “It was an opportunity for the Catholic Pope to help in the process of healing.”Day Chief attended St. Mary’s Residential School on the Blood Reserve. It was one of more than 130 residential schools operated in Canada between the 1870s and 1996.“What is the next step I should say, because at the end of the day the apology that was given in Rome was the same as the one given today,” Day Chief said.
He said he wants the Pope to denounce and revoke the Doctrine of Discovery as he believes without that Indigenous peoples will continue to be locked into oppression. “Without him revoking the doctrine, regards of what we hear from him and that isn't even mentioned in this apology, we are going continue to be locked in that oppression,” Day Chief said.“It was triggering as I know of many of the abuses first-hand, as I witnessed many of the sexual abuses and first-hand experiencing some of the physical abuses and the mental abuses that were put upon myself,” he said.
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