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Our Stories Matter

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Our Stories Matter

Residential school survivors and their families share their voices, stories, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions, and healing.
Credit: 
Carla Wells, Bruce Day Cheif, Marilyn Contois, Lethbridge Public Library, Piitoyiss Indigenous Services Team

The Lethbridge Public Library, Indigenous Services Team met with First Nations, Metis and Inuit living in the in the Blackfoot Confederacy territory who wanted to digitize and share their stories of survival, culture, healing and family and supported their creation of this content and sharing on Voices of the Land.

The Lethbridge Public Library acknowledges that we are gathered on the lands of the Blackfoot people of the Canadian Plains and pays respect to the Blackfoot people past, present and future while recognizing and respecting their cultural heritage, beliefs, and relationship to the land. The City of Lethbridge is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.

Items in Collection: 

Content Warning

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Carla Wells - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Content Warning

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Bruce Day Chief - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths: Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Katie Jo Rabbit - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, People and Personal Stories, Skills and Teachings, Place, Land and Territory
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

Content Warning

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Chester Day Chief - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Content Warning

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School, Sixties scoop.

Marilyn Contois - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School, Sixties scoop.

Content Warning

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Wayne Provost - Our Stories Matter

Story
Community
Lethbridge Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

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Category
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