It's November 11th, Remembrance Day. We attended a ceremony in the auditorium to remember fallen soldiers and the Canadians who risk their lives to honour our country's rights and freedoms.
We are currently working on a take-home math assignment about Remembrance Day and the poem, In Flanders Fields, written by Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae.in 1915.
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ReplyDeleteIn Pimooteewin Communications we continued to discuss what Remembrance means. We took a look at a document called Native Soldiers in Foreign Wars.
It is important to remember Native people have always answered the call to arms despite suffering from colonial dislocation, destruction of culture, deprivation, and social injustice here at home. We talked about the important and heroic contributions Native people have made in the Canadian Forces and for Canada.
We have also tried to expand the definition of Remembrance to include those who have suffered and died in ALL wars. Important to Remembrance are those whose names we may never know; who died fighting for survival in the early days of this country; those men, women, and children who were forcibly moved and interned in camps, on reserves, and in so- called Residential Schools. We remember those children kidnapped from their families, some 50,000 of whom died and lie in unmarked graves near the where these 'schools' stood.