A light pink paper pamphlet is filled to the edges with bold black sans serif text in all-caps which reads in part: Two primary objectives of the residential schools 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…based on the assumption Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal…some sought…quote, to kill the Indian in the child, unquote… — *WE ARE SORRY 2013,* publication cover, Hignell Book Printing, Winnipeg, 2013.

*WE ARE SORRY 2013,* detail, Hignell Book Printing, Winnipeg, 2013.

WE ARE SORRY (2013)

This pamphlet accompanies the artwork WE ARE SORRY (2013) in the exhibition Witness: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, September 6 - December 1, 2013. The work was composed of a large vinyl text panel, a pamphlet and a stack of take-away pieces cut from WE ARE SORRY (Laneway Commissions, Melbourne, Australia, 2009 - 2013).

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