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This week, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada provided an opportunity for former residential school students and their families to share their stories. Between 1867 and 1960, thousands of children living in communities along the Mackenize River valley were sent to Fort Providence to attend "The Mission", as it was then known. And although the Sacred Heart Mission school in Fort Providence was torn down more than thirty years ago, the memories that haunt those who were part of it have not gone anywhere. To help those affected move past their pain, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been touring the north, so that those traumatized by residential schools can "share their truth." One of the people who came forward with her truth is Maxine Lacorne. She's the daughter of residential school survivors. For the record, here she is speaking at the Commission hearing in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories. ||  ||
 * FOR THE RECORD: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION ||> Duration: 00:03:17 ||
 * ||  |||| Tears and truth in the Northwest Territories.

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[|Episode 7 - Father Jean Pochat - August 9 & 12]
4. Picture on Page 200 of book called,Across Time and Tundra, The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic. It has a photo of a carving by Abraham Anghik Ruben called The Last Goodbye. In the artists words: "I clearly remember wehn this took place - my mother sitting with my older brother and sister, David and Martha, just before they left for the school in Aklavik. David was five years old at the time and Martha was only a little older...Theyleft in 1955 and we didn't see them again until the latter part of 1958. Those three years had a permanent impact on my brother's life." Carving is beautiful and yet painful...

5. Stephen Kakfwi's songs... lyrics below for In the Walls of His Mind

In the Walls of His mind

By Stephen Kakfwi

From his Album, In the Walls of His Mind

Remember the years

They took all the children

And they locked them away

Where they taught them to pray

There were children each night

Who were quietly crying


 * They are in the walls**


 * And the halls of my mind.**

How many little souls

That surely were dying

And they will bury so deep

The shame that they keep

They will all be alone

In their Garden of Eden


 * They are in the walls**


 * And the halls of their minds.**

“Oh” he cried to his father

“Please come and help free ‘me’

Now he longs to be free

Of the wounds you can’t see

And he tires of those demons

That keep him from sleeping


 * They are in the walls**


 * And the halls of my mind.**

He tries to be a father

For his wife and his children

And he hides the pain

That will drive him insane

And that voice each night

That is quietly crying


 * Somewhere in the walls**


 * And the halls of his mind.**

Now he’s back forty years

To confront all his fears

And he reaches down in that hole

To the pain in his soul

Now he knows he is the child

Who has been quietly crying


 * All alone in the walls**


 * And the halls of his mind.**

Do you remember the years

When you were the children

They locked you away

And taught you to pray

And your voices each night

Still quietly crying


 * Somewhere in the walls**


 * And the halls of your mind.**

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