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For the Grad Class of 2020

By: severncs July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
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A message of Congratulations from Severn for the Graduating Class of 2020.

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PRIDE!!!!!! Giving us all a boost of celebration and joy!!! What we all need and deserve!
I cry with my Indigenous family and friends and colleagues. All Canadians much help share this load!We have become too used to bad stats about Indigenous peoples. What if all the reports were about Canadian children? The 215 children found in the mass grave were born in Canada!! They are Canadian children!! These are OUR children!! Then will this be unacceptable? Then will there be action to help surviving families, and peoples? Claim these children as yours, Canada!! Claim these children as ours, Canadians!! My heart is breaking today for all the 150 000 Canadians who were stolen from their families as precious children and sent to these institutions where sickness, abuse and death were constant companions. Yesterday while talking about #215children at #kamloopsresidentialschool, we were talking about grave digging, and my father-in law piped up - “yeah, we used to dig graves. We got $5 a grave.” At the residential school in Edmonton he went to as a teen, the students would dig graves for their fellow students. And get paid $5 a grave. We didn’t know that before yesterday. We asked him where the graves were dug, he said, “just across the road from the school, and through the field.” We asked does anyone know about that graveyard? He just said, “oh, I don’t know.” This is just a little of the conversations that are happening today in families across this country Canada.
#Repost @melina_miyowapan with @make_repost
I am heartsick with the news of discovery of the Tk’emlups mass children’s grave.
Living here in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, I’ve learned much about how to behave around death and grief. When someone dies, everything stops and everyone goes to the home of the grieving family. My JiiGuu Nadaay (mother in law) says that when you go to their house you are helping those grieving, you share some of the load of grieving. All of us Canadians must take on some of the burden of Missing and Murdered Indigenous sisters, daughters, mothers. Let us pay respect by being aware, by sharing the burden of grief, and by finding answers. #repost @shayla0h with @make_repost
Ok, I usually don’t rave about products or companies, and I rarely post selfies. But I just got my @cheekbonebeauty order, and this is what arrived: packaging you can plant! And compost. This made me as stoked as I am about the lipstick and eyeliner itself!!! The waste and harm done by the beauty industry is unconscionable, but look - Jenn Harper is leading the way: beauty doesn’t have to be destructive. Cosmetic companies, take note! Plastic is out!!! Let’s reclaim real beauty! Lip Colour is Sustain Askhik. My gorgeous earrings by the talented @ladybird_ra #nomoreplastic #cheekbonebeautycosmetics
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