INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Archibald was among the delegation that greeted Pope Francis on his arrival at Edmonton, Alberta, airport in what has been described as a
us in the proper planning of this process
In a letter addressed to Archbishop Richard Smith of the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton city (the capital of Alberta province) on Friday,
staff and I were able to glean from information released to public through the papal visit website and press clippings what we understand to
system, Archibald will not be welcoming the Pontiff or briefly speak on stage as the Office of the National Chief initially
so even as I flew here, I was just so overcome with emotion and there were different times on the plane where I really had to stop myself
survivors that are going to be at the event tomorrow, and the emotional level there is going to be so raw and high in terms of pain and
statements from the Pope and extensions, originating in the 1400s
Discovery was used as legal and moral justification for colonial dispossession of sovereign Indigenous Nations, including First Nations in
peoples and was used to dehumanize, exploit and subjugate Indigenous Peoples and dispossess us of our most basic rights
This was the very foundation of genocide
forced to attend residential schools across Canada, which were intended to erase their culture and language in what an official
investigative committee labeled as cultural genocide
government created and funded the system, while the majority of them were directly run by the Catholic Church.For years now, there have been
numbers of children dying in the school system since 1907, those calls grew louder with the grizzly discovery, last year, of hundreds of
unmarked graves of native children that were identified and discovered at the former residential schools.The discoveries made by indigenous
Canadians, using advanced radar technology, is widely believed to be just a small portion of the many native children that went
more from the government and the Catholic Church including the release of school records, compensation, the return of Indigenous artifacts,
support for extraditing an accused abuser, and the rescinding of the 15th-century doctrine justifying colonial dispossession of Indigenous
