Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist http://instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese
@conniewalker.bsky.socialThanks, Molly. I also wrote more about our project here: contactingconnie.substack.com/p/who-is-pro...
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@mollstoll.bsky.socialReposted by @conniewalker.bsky.socialtoday at the brick works, event/launch of project (Protecting Indian Residential School Records). hearing from Connie Walker, Murray, Marie Wilson & Stephen Kakfwi on the pending destruction of Survivors’ records and what’s at stake @miskoaki.bsky.social @conniewalker.bsky.social
@pseesequasis.bsky.socialReposted by @conniewalker.bsky.socialNamed by my late aunt Ruth Seesequasis.
@pseesequasis.bsky.socialReposted by @conniewalker.bsky.social35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper
@pseesequasis.bsky.socialReposted by @conniewalker.bsky.socialOn #OrangeShirtDay paying respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis, 7) Veronique
@substack.comReposted by @conniewalker.bsky.socialAs Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist @conniewalker.bsky.social shares her work digging into survivor testimonies—records that face the threat of imminent destruction contactingconnie.substack.com/p/who-is-pro...
@conniewalker.bsky.socialIt's taken a minute but I'm excited to tell you about a new project and a new podcast (eventually).
In many ways, Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s was just the beginning….
@conniewalker.bsky.socialWhen we finished our podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's in 2022, I knew that I wasn’t done with the story. Even though we had spent a year investigating my dad's experience at the St. Michael's Indian Residential School and uncovered a staggering level of abuse, the story felt unfinished.
@conniewalker.bsky.social"We will not be intimidated," said Casimir.
"This is not going to deter us from gathering, reflecting, or honouring our survivors and the children who returned home," she said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@conniewalker.bsky.socialJudge won’t jail Ontario billionaire Frank Stronach for sexual offence — ‘I’m not going to order custody for a man who is 94’ www.thestar.com/news/gta/bil...
@conniewalker.bsky.socialDid you know that in one year, the biggest archive of Survivor testimony is set to be destroyed by order of the Supreme Court of Canada? What is at stake when we lose Survivor records? Please join us for this important discussion.
@conniewalker.bsky.socialIsrael controls all aid supplies into the war-ravaged enclave, where most of the population has been displaced multiple times and faces acute shortages of basic necessities. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
cbc.caAt least 15 Palestinians in Gaza die of starvation in deepening hunger crisis, medics say | CBC NewsA six-week-old infant was among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in ...