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Embracing Our Existence
From: In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2
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An essay about the impact of the residential school system and a tribute to the survivors.
Contributors
Hank Charles
Hank is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in northern Saskatchewan. His band consists of six reserve communities that have gone through social upheaval as a result of colonization and residential schools. Writing, for Hank, is a way to release the trauma. It is a way to teach society about what happened. Land-based education has always been his interest, and he previously published an article on that topic, “Reconnecting with the Land: Embracing ‘Nihithaway Pimatisiwin’ as a basis for land-based education, healing, and reconciliation”, 2018 – First Peoples Writing Undergraduate Journal – British Columbia.
