CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
By Teresa Smith, Ottawa Citizen July 26, 2013
OTTAWA — Geraldine King, 33, has spent her life thinking about residential schools and how they’ve affected her family.
The Carleton University student says she is an “inter-generational survivor,” because, while she wasn’t a student herself, her grandmother and likely her grandfather lived with memories of abuse and loss of culture. Their experiences, says King, changed the way they treated their children and resulted in a cycle of abuse and alcoholism in her family.
On Thursday, King stood shoulder to shoulder with about 100 people in Ottawa and thousands more in 12 cities across the country to demand that Prime Minister Stephen Harper “honour the apology” he made in 2008 on behalf of all Canadians for the horrors experienced by more than 150,000 aboriginal people at residential schools.
They want the immediate release of all documents pertaining to the residential school era to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
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