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Project of Heart eBook: A University of Regina, Faculty of Education Response to the TRCs Calls to Action Presented by Shuana Niessen As part of its deep commitments to anti- oppressive education and teaching for a better world, the

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Presented by Shuana Niessen

Project of Heart eBook: A University of Regina, Faculty of Education Response to the TRC’s Calls to Action

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“As part of its deep

commitments to anti-

ppressive education and

teaching for a better world, the Faculty of Education, situated

n Treaty 4 land at the

University of Regina, takes seriously the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) calls to action, particularly those specific to education.”

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“Silence really is deafening.” In the 2012 docudrama, We Were Children, Glen Anaquod said, “Silence really is deafening,” as he recalled his experience of being locked in a cell and abused in the priest’s basement at Lebret (Qu’Appelle) Indian Industrial School.

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I for one looked into the window And there on the floor Was a deluge of a misery… I had no wish to enter Nor to walk the halls I had no wish to feel the floors Where I felt fear A beating heart of episodes I care not to recall… What is the Project of Heart?

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www.projectofheart.ca/sk

Sylvia Smith Charlene Bearhead

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"Removed from their families and home communities, seven generations of Aboriginal children were denied their identity through a systematic and concerted effort to extinguish their culture, language, and spirit.” ~Chair of the TRC, Justice Murray Sinclair.

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This history and its aftermath...should not be seen as an Aboriginal problem; it’s a Canadian one.” ~Chief Justice Murray Sinclair

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http://wherearethechildren.ca/e n/stories/#story_8 https://youtu.be/w22zJJ6Tn3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= CafMcYKk1Ls http://www2.uregina.ca/education/news/fort-pelly-st-philips-indian-residential-school/ http://projectofheart.ca/blog/2013/05/22/st- lukes-elementary-extreme-cold-is-no-match- for-warmth-of-elders/

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(Left ) Mathew Sangwais, great grandson of Noel Joseph Pinay, Senior, and (Right) Lawrence Pinay, great grandson of Clifford

Pinay. Clifford and Noel

Penna (brothers) were taken from Shesheep First Nation at the ages of 12 and 10 by Father Hugonard. They attended residential school at Lebret and they never returned to Shesheep. They were relocated onto Peepeekisis via The File Hills Colony experiment.