By Abby Luciano, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, North Shore News Nearly 250 people wearing orange filled Dollarton Highway in North Vancouver Tuesday for a walk honouring səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) residential school survivors. Tsleil-Waututh Nation members, politicians and people from the community gathered at Whey-ah-Wichen/Cates Park 11 a.m. Tuesday to walk three kilometres to the community’s reserve. “We walk together to take some of that harm that’s been on our path as Tsleil-Waututh people, as Indigenous people,” said Gabriel George, knowledge keeper and director of the culture, language and protocol department at Tsleil-Waututh Nation to the crowd. “We want to bring that healing.” Tsleil-Waututh elders and residential school survivors led the walk with the community following behind in solidarity. Along Dollarton Highway, many people held signs remembering Tsleil-Waututh loved ones who…
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