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POEM
I needed to feel my mother's presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school
When Vivian Ketchum learned about the discover of possible graves at the site of the northwestern Ontario residential school her mother once attended, she wrote this poem. "I have not forgotten you," she writes. "I am dancing with the relatives found."
First Person
Dear Mom, the Pope is in Canada to meet residential school survivors
For residential school survivor Vivian Ketchum, the Pope’s visit has stirred up complicated feelings of what it means to forgive. She wrote this letter to her mom to process her emotions.