The weight of Sept. 30 is heavy for Indigenous people because of the lasting impacts of colonialism andthe Indian residential school system has caused communities. Caron, a member of Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, has been involved in the march since its inception.
“My mom is a residential school survivor, and my grandmother and my aunties and uncles are day school survivors and have a half-sister who’s a 60 Scoop survivor,” he said. “So I feel that responsibility, I’m not sure where it ends and where my responsibility just kind of picks up. So I’m still navigating that.”Dana-Lyn Mackenzie has also been involved in the march since its inception.
“I feel such a responsibility for this event in particular because we’re all intergenerational survivors,” she said. “We have grandparents and people in our communities that either survived residential schools or didn’t, and know people that were lost along the way to substance or alcohol abuse.
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