Wilson talked about what it means to be a witness at the Wîcihitowin Indigenous Engagement Conference in Saskatoon on Tuesday.
“We know that our country sometimes pays more attention when the rest of the world is watching us than we do if we think we can get away with things just among ourselves, behind closed doors,” Wilson reflected.Indigenous Engagement Conference in Saskatoon, Wilson spoke about the ongoing importance of bearing witness to the realities of residential schools, the sixties scoop, and the legacy of colonial violence and injustice in Canada — and to the possibility of repair and a just future.
Guests react as they listen to speakers during day two of the eighth and final Wîcihitowin Indigenous Engagement Conference at TCU Place.“We are the future,” she said. “The future is here. It is the only day we can count on. We don’t know the first thing about tomorrow, and we can’t count on tomorrow for the day we’re going to get around to doing something important and great.
At the conference, as she began her keynote speech, Wilson asked the survivors in the room to stand or make themselves known. Then she asked the second-generation survivors, the children of those who had been at residential schools, to do the same.Wilson also talked about what it means to be a witness — that doing so is “not a spectator sport,” but only the start of an
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