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Prayer, ‘watch fire,’ walk honor those impacted by Indian boarding schools

As a child, Virgil Blacklance heard stories about Indian boarding schools, one of which his father attended. He recalled that after events like powwows concluded, families would often go back to their encampments and gather around fires where “the old people” would sit and visit, he said. When Blacklance and other children grew tired from playing, they’d sit and listen to their stories.

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Canadian archbishop, Cowessess chief seek new ways of ‘walking together’

Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation and Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan, have been walking together for some time now — including through the work of ground-penetrating radar and finding 751 hits near a former Catholic-run residential school last summer.

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