“A resilient Nation will overcome destructive assimilation practices
and rise to become proud and strong again, intertwined like sweetgrass
by kinship, culture, and the will to survive and thrive.”
Cross Lake Elder
Our goal is to build a bridge to the past by fostering a digital space where the stories of Residential School Students can be shared to ensure their memory endures.
PROJECT SUMMARY
In December 2020, the Cross Lake Band of Indians (CLBOI) created a local task force, Winahwinikewin Project, and submitted an application to the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund. This funding program is initiated by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) to address and redress the ongoing legacy of residential schools in Canada. The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund is created to support Indigenous communities and families research, locate, and document burial sites associated with former residential schools, as well as memorialize deaths of children and return children’s remains home.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Purpose of this Project is Four-fold:
(a) To exhibit to current and future generations of Pimicikamak, and to the rest of the world, relevant history as it relates to the forced involvement of Cross Lake children and youth in residential schools in the 1900s.
(b) To bring honour to the former Cross Lake residential school students by acknowledging their forced participation in the various residential schools that were located all across the province of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which includes students who never returned.
(c) To use it as a means of bringing continued healing to the present and future generations of Pimicikamak by exhibiting on-going commemorative events associated with the history of residential schools.
(d) To exhibit articles, chronicles, journals, scholarly writings, and reconciliation initiatives as it relates to the subject of residential schools in Canada for research and learning purposes. Included is the research work that was completed under the Winahwinikewin Project.
“A resilient Nation will overcome destructive assimilation practices
and rise to become proud and strong again, intertwined like sweetgrass
by kinship, culture, and the will to survive and thrive.”
Cross Lake Elder
Our goal is to build a bridge to the past by fostering a digital space where the stories of Residential School Students can be shared to ensure their memory endures.
PROJECT SUMMARY
In December 2020, the Cross Lake Band of Indians (CLBOI) created a local task force, Winahwinikewin Project, and submitted an application to the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund. This funding program is initiated by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) to address and redress the ongoing legacy of residential schools in Canada. The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund is created to support Indigenous communities and families research, locate, and document burial sites associated with former residential schools, as well as memorialize deaths of children and return children’s remains home.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Purpose of this Project is Four-fold:
(a) To exhibit to current and future generations of Pimicikamak, and to the rest of the world, relevant history as it relates to the forced involvement of Cross Lake children and youth in residential schools in the 1900s.
(b) To bring honour to the former Cross Lake residential school students by acknowledging their forced participation in the various residential schools that were located all across the province of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which includes students who never returned.
(c) To use it as a means of bringing continued healing to the present and future generations of Pimicikamak by exhibiting on-going commemorative events associated with the history of residential schools.
(d) To exhibit articles, chronicles, journals, scholarly writings, and reconciliation initiatives as it relates to the subject of residential schools in Canada for research and learning purposes. Included is the research work that was completed under the Winahwinikewin Project.