During the 2014-2015 school year, students in
Grade 6 at both campuses took part in TFS' first unit of study on residential
schools, in the same year that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
released its report.
The unit included reading about the life of a residential school student
and visiting a former residential school, as well as taking part in a smudging
ceremony, conducted by TFS alumnus and honorary Anishinaabe band
member Dr. Michael Dan '78, and a tree-planting in TFS' ravine, overseen by
a native elder.
As a history lesson for today's real world, and an examination of a tragic
and misguided past, the unit of study was deeply felt by our students.
Inside
the Lives
of Others
FEATURE
History doesn't only
occupy the distant
past, seemingly so
removed from the
present that we can
barely comprehend
its import to the
here and now.
21 TFS ENTRE NOUS 2015
