Correction: Brandon Residential School
There was an omission in the Living Into Right Relations newsletter of June 16 which we would like to correct. We included an APTN news item about an unidentified gravesite associated with Brandon Residential School, which was operated by The United Church of Canada, but did not share the fuller story of local United Church involvement in cemetery identification and restoration.
Members of United Church communities of faith in Southwestern Manitoba, once part of the Assiniboine Presbytery and the former Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Conference, were involved with the local community, including survivors, the Brandon Friendship Centre, the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, and faculty at Brandon University, in the identification of the Brandon School cemeteries.
These communities of faith support the work of researcher Katherine Nichols, who was instrumental in these findings. They seek to follow the guidance of the elders and survivors. As a result, the Brandon Indian Residential School Mobile Learning Centre opened in 2016. If you are interested in more information about the centre, you may contact Knox United in Brandon. In addition, Knox is a partner on the application for a federal grant to protect and care for the site and the associated cemeteries.
Find out more about the Brandon IRS Cemeteries project and the research of Katherine Nichols.
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