Educating Canada

Alkina is my best friend and has been for the last fifteen years of our lives. She is Métis and lives with her grandma, Alinga, which means “the sun”. We often go to her house after school where her grandma always has another disheartening story about her childhood. Alinga tells us about people who took her away from her family and put her in a school. I do not personally have as much knowledge on this supposed significant subject as Alinga, and neither do my classmates, so our schoolteacher organized a fieldtrip to our province’s Residential School Historic Site. Our teacher says that it is necessary for all Canadians to know about these schools.