Brandon University is pausing its classes on Friday, July 2nd for a day of mourning and Reflection.
This comes as unmarked graves continue to be discovered at former residential schools.
The latest discovery was at Cowessess First Nation, about an hour south of Yorkton.
Brandon University President David Docherty ordered that all campus flags be lowered to half-mast through and past Canada. This includes the three new Indigenous flags that were recently hoisted.
“Indigenous people were targeted by the racist and colonial policies that supported such schools, where the wholesale destruction of Indigenous cultures was the terrible goal, and where Indigenous lives were treated with utter and sickening disregard. We cannot and must not look away from those truths.”
Docherty issued a challenge to staff, faculty, and students to spend the day on reconciliatory work.
