WE ARE SORRY tops b&w pic of school room, adults watch children parade topless in striped cloths and feather headbands. Adults are smiling, childrens faces are blurred. Quoted below: “TWO PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM WERE TO REMOVE AND ISOLATE CHILDREN FROM THE INFLUENCE OF THEIR HOMES, FAMILIES, TRADITIONS AND CULTURES, AND TO ASSIMILATE THEM INTO THE DOMINANT CULTURE. THESE OBJECTIVES WERE BADED ON THE ASSUMPTION ABORIGINAL CULTURES AND SPIRITUAL BELIEFS WERE INFERIOR AND UNEQUAL...

WE ARE SORRY (2009)

WE ARE SORRY page-work in Visual Arts News, Nova Scotia, Summer 2009.

Themes / Topics:
Commemoration / remembering / memory / memorializing
Indian Residential Schools apology
Political issues
Public apology / apologies
Forms / Mediums:
Pageworks