by kquinn | Wed, 12/02/2009 - 11:24am
Garnet Angeconeb, an Indian Residential School survivor, will be bringing a gift of soil from the Pelican Residential School bundled with tobacco ties to Ottawa Oct. 15 to be kept in an ash basket at the office of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Angeconeb’s gift was blessed at the Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre in Sioux Lookout Oct. 12 in a ceremony and prayer led by Ralph Johnson. Angeconeb will be attending a ceremony in Ottawa with Indian Residential School
Survivors, Gov.-Gen. Michaelle Jean and commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.