Quesnel looking to address harm caused by Mayor’s wife denying Residential School history

By Tom Summer  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The City of Quesnel is seeking to set up a meeting with the Lhtako Dene Nation, following the discovery that the Mayor’s wife, Pat Morton, had been distributing copies of Grave Error – How The Media Misled Us (And The Truth About Residential Schools), a book which severely downplays the history and harms of residential schools in Canada. The issue was addressed during council’s March 19 meeting, following a letter from the Lhtako Dene Nation, expressing outrage over having to defend the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the T’Kemlups te Secwepem’c First Nation, the Williams Lake First Nation, and others. “The calling into question of what our Nation went through is a slap in our people’s collective faces and is very…

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