By Pratik Bhattarai, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Eastern Graphic Indigenous and non-Indigenous students from Mount Stewart Consolidated school are learning about First Nation, Inuit and M\u00e9tis peoples\u2019 history through an essay contest. Grade 6, 7 and 8 students are writing about the history of Indigenous peoples, especially regarding the residential schools where Indigenous kids were sent, forcefully separating them from their families in order to assimilate them into Euro-Canadian culture. Many of them never returned to their families. Some students have a direct relationship to survivors. Emma Peters, a Grade 7 student from Scotchfort, said she understands reconciliation as a way of fixing the wrongdoing. She said her grandfather was a residential school survivor and it is important to raise awareness about what happened to the kids in those… <\/p>\n
By Pratik Bhattarai, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Eastern Graphic Indigenous and non-Indigenous students from Mount Stewart Consolidated school are learning about First Nation, Inuit and M\u00e9tis peoples\u2019 history through an essay contest. Grade 6, 7 and 8 students are writing about the history of Indigenous peoples, especially regarding the residential schools where Indigenous kids were sent, forcefully separating them from their families in order to assimilate them into Euro-Canadian culture. Many of them never returned to their families. Some students have a direct relationship to survivors. Emma Peters, a Grade 7 student from Scotchfort, said she understands reconciliation as a way of fixing the wrongdoing. She said her grandfather was a residential school survivor and it is important to raise awareness about what happened to the kids in those... <\/p>\n