‘Our biggest job is to educate’: Yorkton Tribal Council chief calls for year-round reconciliation

By Andrea Moss, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, SaskToday.ca, SASKTODAY.ca YORKTON, Sask. — As communities across Canada prepare to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Yorkton Tribal Council Chief Isobel O’Soup says education remains critical to understanding the lasting impacts of residential schools and the challenges Indigenous people continue to face today. O’Soup said many Canadians remain unaware of the history of residential schools and the intergenerational trauma they caused, despite years of public discussion and the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. The Calls to Action were released more than a decade ago, but O’Soup believes there is still considerable work to be done to increase public awareness and understanding. “We didn’t start off as drug addicts and alcoholics and all the social…

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