This is so empowering to see proving that despite how hard the churches and Canadian government tried. They failed to “kill the Indian in the child” and that we will continue to flourish in our beautiful culture ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 and we will never give up
[VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
A First Nations child in Canada doing a traditional dance in front of a Catholic monument in a jingle dress with live singers accompanying her as an act of defiance proving that the residential schools failed to eradicate their people. Kids shoes have been left on the stone steps, presumably equivalent to the number of child graves recently found in an old residential school.
We are still here. We will not be silenced… even though the genocide continues. /END of VD]
[Additional video description: text displayed over the course of the video reads: “She dances in front of the Catholic monument as an act of defiance. Proving that the Residential Schools failed to eradicate our people. Proving that Indigenous people are resilient. The Church and the Canadian Government failed to ‘kill the Indian in the child.’ We are still here. We will not be silenced…even though the genocide continues…” End description.]
The last official residential school in Canada closed in 1996. This is still recent history.
