Truth and reconciliation comes to Langley this weekend

Truth and reconciliation is coming to Langley this weekend - and hopefully it will come to many more communities across Canada.
Former Langley school trustee Cecelia Reekie, who is part of the Haisla First Nation, is spearheading an event at Yorkson Creek Middle School which will feature as guest speaker Wab Kinew, who has been a living example of the power of reconciliation, both in his own family and in his work as a broadcaster and filmmaker. His book "The Reason You Walk" provides a large number of examples of the brokenness and damage caused by past Canadian policies towards First Nations people. It also details; how his family has coped with the ever-present damage caused by residential schools, broken relationships, lost aboriginal languages, physical and sexual abuse and many other things. It makes clear how the dysfunction caused by the forced removal of children from their families continues through the generations - but it also offers a great deal of hope.
Langley Times reporter Monique Tamminga has done an excellent story on the weekend's events. It can be found here: http://www.langleytimes.com/news/369000101.html.
I've found Wab Kinew's book to be very powerful reading and I'm looking forward to hearing from him in person at this event.  

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