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Brian Giesbrecht's avatar

Life was very hard for people, like Percy and his family. Now, like flies on their sad corpses, many feed off their misery

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Those who happened to watch the video in the most recent CBC piece about Percy might recall that one of the guests at the exhumation was a Six Nations chief, Claire Sault, who is filmed in the video saying, “Imagine how many more Percys there are.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/percy-onabigon-remains-repatriated-residental-school-1.7525722

The Onabigons gifted Sault a beaded medallion “for KEEPING PERCY’S REMAINS SAFE in her traditional territory for so many years.”

I commented to a friend that gee, it must have been a TON OF WORK for Chief Sault to keep that grave “safe” all those years! She’s only been chief (of the Mississaugas of the Credit River) since December 2023, and “her traditional territory” is also the traditional territory of a dozen other Mohawk “Nations” – and millions of Canadians.

So I ask: Where’s the Province of Ontario’s medallion for keeping Percy ALIVE for 20 years, marking and maintaining his grave for 59 years, and now paying for his exhumation?

No gratitude or acknowledgement there, just excoriation for “hid[ing] him until he died,” as Claire scolds.

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