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only when everyone accepts responsibility for healing in ways that foster respect.

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We have to work together. The Reverend Stan McKay of the United Church, who is also a Survivor, believes that reconciliation can happen

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happened.

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And I think it's time for you non-Aboriginals ... to go to your politicians and tell them that we have to take responsibility for what

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It was taken away....

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We lost that.

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My mother had a high standing in our cultural ways.

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we need to work together....

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All these people in this room, a lot of non-Aboriginals, a lot of Aboriginals that probably didn't go to residential school;

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And how do we do that?

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wrong.

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in order to create balance. At the Victoria Regional Event in 2012, Survivor Archie Little said, [For] me reconciliation is righting a

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And so to reconcile with this land and everything that has happened, there is much work to be done ...

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The land is made up of the dust of our ancestors' bones.

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Our relatives who have come from across the water [non-Aboriginal people], you still have work to do on your road....

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That work we are [already] doing as [Aboriginal] peoples.

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We have work to do.

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We can hear about our stories, our governance, our feasts, [and] our medicines....

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We can hear about our law.

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We can hear the care and love for the children.