Many children are afraid of the dark.
Imagine, then, being a child forcefully removed from your home, spoken to in a language you did not understand, asked to conform to a culture foreign to you, taught by people you did not know and left alone to heal your own emotional wounds that grew deeper by the day the longer you were kept away from the safety of family.
This was a common experience of children who were sent to residential schools in Canada, and a window into the depth of resilience required of these children to survive.
For four nights, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, four large-scale projections of light are shining brightly across the
#UCalgary campus landscape with the familiar
#EveryChildMatters message. This night light tribute is a memorial to the children taken or traumatized by the residential school system.
Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and
#OrangeShirtDay and we honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communi...