Local Journalism Initiative 01/08/2024 GRASSY NARROWS – The federal government is making a big cut in funding for residential schools initiatives, and that’s “very disappointing” to Chief Rudy Turtle. “We weren’t expecting it,” the Grassy Narrows First Nation chief said Thursday of Ottawa’s decision to cut funding by 83 per cent. “It caught us by surprise, for sure.” Turtle said the feds didn’t communicate the decision directly to him or Grassy Narrows (Asubpeeschoseewagong) council. Instead, he said, “I heard it through the media, plus from our residential school workers.” He said the reduction “definitely slows things down” in his First Nation’s investigation of the former McIntosh Residential School, which had children from Grassy Narrows and many other reserves from 1925 to 1969. The First Nation northeast of Kenora is heading…
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