Carla Wells - Our Stories Matter

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Our Stories Matter
Carla Wells, Blood Tribe
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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.
Description: 

Carla Wells, Blood Tribe, shares about her life being raised by her grandparents who are residential school survivors. Carla is raising her grandchildren in the traditional ways of the Blackfoot people. 

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Blood Reserve 

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Community
Edmonton Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, People and Personal Stories

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

Protocol: 
Piitoyiss Indigenous Services Team
Community: 
Lethbridge Public Library
Category: 
Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories
Media Type(s): 
Video
Keywords: 
Culture, dancing, Grandparent, grandchildren, Elder, family, Healing, History, Residential School, Teachings
Creator(s): 
Carla Wells, Marilyn Contois
Contributor(s): 
Marilyn Contois, Lethbridge Public Library
Date: 
2022 July
Language(s): 
English, Blackfoot
Rights: 
Carla Wells owns the rights to this content. This story contains historical sensitivities and describes difficult events. It has been shared to help create a deeper understanding of community experience and should be treated with great care. You are asked to consider these sensitivities with gravity when accessed, using, or sharing this content. Additional input, insights, information, and dialogue from community members is welcomed to help enrich and enhance this content. Contribute knowledge by contacting the content creator and/or sharing stories as "Related Content" on Voices of the Land.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Publisher: 
Marilyn Contois, Lethbridge Public Library