Archive - Jun 7, 2008
Residential School apology by government becoming political event instead of a new start for Aboriginal people
June 7, 2008 - 1:50pm | by brianbeatonTensions Mounts Over Apology
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
What was meant to be a highly symbolic gesture to salve the historic wounds of native residential school abuse has become a source of tense frustration.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to officially apologize Wednesday for decades of trauma and cultural losses inflicted by institutions once geared to "kill the Indian in the child."