Part of the ‘60s scoop she grew up at Woodnorth, just the other side of Virden. Driver, Anne Marie Tacan, says of the well-behaved horses, “We trained these boys ourselves.” She introduces grandson Kaysen Bonnaise Tacan on the back of the wagon. We’re monitored by all levels of government, but the same doesn’t apply to that system.” And yet I look at our government and what is expected of us - accountability for every dime and every record. Tragic! And people in the church, they knew about this and government, they’ve known. Pratt hopes leaders of the churches involved will acknowledge the Kamloops discovery. They were crying.” The months that they would not see their parents would seem like an eternity. But as parents, I think of myself, “says Pratt looking at her granddaughter, “How could I let her, at her age of six, to be loaded up on a truck sent away. She said they knew, come fall, the big truck would come. Pratt’s mother told her stories of her experiences. … Thankfully we will not see my children, my grandchildren have to go through that.”Ĭouncillor with Sioux Valley Dakota Nation (SVDN) Evelyn Pratt brought her grandchildren to meet the riders. He said of the parents and the grandparents, “I can’t imagine having your child taken away from you. I myself, like many others, both my dad and my mom went to residential school.” Many have stories that they’re scared to talk about even to this day… the abuse that had happened at these schools. He said, “Many have gone through the residential school. “I felt robbed of my father, all my life.”Īs the riders settled their horses, a man named Billy Taylor, announcer at the KODA radio station, spoke without notes to the group shouting to people well distanced on a windy day. Mazawasicuna, one of the Unity Riders, said he was grateful to find out what took his dad out of his family life. It was only shortly before his dad’s death, that father and son reconciled when his father began to share stories of his childhood trauma from residential school. He turned to alcohol it wrecked the family. “I like to keep moving forward.” But he said this news “triggered a lot of stuff.” His own dad suffered all his life from residential school experiences. Travis Mazawasicuna,a 55-year-old husband, father and Sioux Valley resident, described his feelings about the discovery and talked of healing in his relationship with his dad. News of the discovery at the Kamloops site brought fresh waves of pain to First Nations peoples. Media outlets should meet the riders at the Venice Beach Pier located at 100 Washington Boulevard in Venice.To pay respect to the 215 children buried at Kamloops residential school in B.C., Sioux Valley Dakota Unity Riders travelled from the pow wow grounds in the valley to the PetroCan station on the TransCanada, Saturday, June 5. The 58 off-duty police officers participating in the Police Unity Tour to honor fallen officers will ride more than 25 days, and over 3,500 miles.Īt 7:00 a.m., on Friday, April 14, 2006, media outlets are welcome to film “b-roll” of riders dipping their bicycle wheels in the Pacific Ocean to commemorate the Police Unity Tour’s departure. Marty Weston, President of Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic ClubĪ dozen riders from the Police Unity Tour’s cross-country relay team will ride bicycles from Los Angeles to Florham Park, New Jersey then to the sight of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Representatives from Beverly Hills Police Department In the event of rain, please go to the gymnasiumĭeputy Chief Jeff Crawford, Los Angeles School Police (In front of the mural on the athletic field) News Conference and Ceremonial Send-Off for the Police Unity Tour’sĬross-Country Bicycle Ride to Honor Fallen Officers
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