Where are the children?

Through viewing the site www.wherearethechildren.ca, I learned that residential schools were open from 1831 to 1996, impacting Indigenous families lives for seven generations. Immigrant settlers thought they were helping by “unteaching" First Nations, Métis, and Inuit kids and “civilizing” Indigenous people. This reminds me of a book called The Wolves are Back where we learn that wolves in the United States were killed because they were not gentile enough. In the story we hear how removing the wolves upset the whole ecosystem. It was only when the wolves were returned that life found its balance.

Similarly, immigrant settlers tried to remove Indigenous people from the land and like whites were wrong about removing the wolves, it is so clear to me that they were so very mistaken in their choice to kill and strip Indigenous people from the land. Indigenous people hold such deep-seated understandings of the world and I know we need Indigenous people to teach us how to relate to the land we live on and with. #indigenouslivesmatter #childrenslivesarenow