Tom longboat's daughter

I'm listening to canadian radio, listening to indian people speak their truths about the Residential Schools. At this time I want to speak to the Residential School Survivors and secondly to the relatives and friends of those Survivors, living and deceased.  YOU ARE HAVING A NORMAL REACTION TO AN ABNORMAL SITUATION.  Any normal person would have reacted the same way you have, if they were in the same situation. You are normal. It is the residential school that was abnormal. It is the residential school that was wrong, not you. You are as the Creator made you.

I am Tom Longboat's grandson. My mom was Tom's oldest child. She past last fall at 100 years old.  She always spoke up when she saw wrongs being done to Indian People. This is what her parents did and the previous generations before her. This is our oral history, this is why we Indian people still have what we have today. I think it best to start with the letter I wrote on May 17th, 2021 for Tom Longboat Day 2021. This letter is drawn upon a lifetime of listening to those who were older than me. I have not released it until now because of the news of the 215 Indian children being found at Kamloops. I first heard of this news on Friday May 28th and the next day I stayed in bed thinking about it and then wrote a letter dated May 30th. This letter follows the May 17th letter. You will notice the change in tone of these two letters. I thought it best to keep the two letters as originally written instead of combining or editing them because of the news of Kamloops. These two letters...