Little Souls Journey Home ceremony planned for Friday in Red Deer
A ceremonial event this Friday at Red Deer’s City Hall Park (1-3 p.m.) will continue the healing journey left behind by the tragedy that is the approximate 150,000 Indigenous children swept away to residential schools.
Little Souls Journey Home, organized by Shining Mountains Living Community Services, is happening in partnership with Urban Aboriginal Voices Society, Métis Nation of Alberta, and the Red Deer Native Friendship Society.
At the event, a 42-panel community-created blanket will be presented, and it will become a travelling piece, with many Indigenous organizations and others already expressing a desire to display it.
“The intent of the event is to welcome home those children who didn’t get to come home, as well as the ones who did, but were in suffering. The day is for truth and reconciliation, of course, and to that end, we’ve created this blanket to be unveiled to the community,” says Raye St. Denys, executive director at Shining Mountains.