I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here’s why the Pope’s apology isn’t an apology at all

I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here’s why the Pope’s apology isn’t an apology at all

By Lori Campbell
Associate Vice President
(Indigenous Engagement),
University of Regina

Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, including survivors of residential schools and their descendants, had gathered — to deliver an expected apology in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 58:

We call upon the Pope to issue an apology to Survivors, their families, and communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools.

I am the granddaughter of a Residential School survivor. I am the daughter of a First Nations woman who survived having each of her seven children stolen and relocated through the ’60s Scoop assimilation policy.

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