Teacher Melanie Doucette said teaching students about the harsh realities of residential schools is different depending on the age group.“The older that they get we do tell them about the reality and what happened in a more simplified way. One of the points we want to make more visible so they’re part of the décor of our school,” she said in an interview.
Some dreamcatchers she made with students out of vegan leather are on display in the hall, along with the phrase, “Every dream matters,” in English, French and Mi’kmaq.Doucette said Virginia Vicaire, a Mi’kmaq teacher who works at the school, helped the children make dreamcatchers, an Ojibwe tradition.
“She taught us about the meaning of dream catchers was to let through the good dreams through the spiderweb and then the spiders would stop the bad dreams,” she said. Doucette said there is also a Reconciliation Food Forest behind the school, which contains trees native to the region, as well as signs indicating how Mi’kmaq people used the plants.
Annie Russell helped plant the garden two years ago, and said she wants to learn more about First Nations history and culture.
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