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Copyright Protected, ID 01-156-938-08
All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
Written August 01, 2023
For the International Contest, Relativity - Time - A Vignette
Sponsor, Suzette Richards Judged 08/26/2023
Honorable Mention

In Canada, the First Indigenous Communities sadly watched as the ground
penetrating high-tech equipment searched and found the unmarked graves
of residential school children. These children were taken from their homes
by force, beaten, raped, and killed, and buried in unmarked graves in what
is called the Sixties Scope. As an Ojibway girl, I watched too.
In a Manitoba church basement archeologists detected fourteen possible
graves sites thinking they could be human remains of children.
Some in the community said let the dead rest, others demand justice for
these children taken by the government. Is there relativity in digging up
the remains after all this time?
I have screamed to the sky at each revealed grave, why! Oh, no time can
erase the hurt and pain of the Indigenous people. This is part of the history
of Canada. No words can ever remove it. Yes, it happened, it was real !
Copyright © Constance La France | Year Posted 2023
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