I was a boy of seventeen when the slaughter began, on September 11, 1973. People just like me were rounded up by soldiers and bayoneted and shot, or tied like animals and herded into the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile.
We are traditional clan mothers from the Squamish, Musqueam, Cowichan, Chilcotin, and Cree nations who are survivors of the deadly internment camps misnamed “Indian residential schools”.
We have been forced to bury the children two and three to a grave. – John Zimmerman, Principal, Anglican Mohawk ‘Indian Residential School’, Brantford, May 6, 1948