A Survivors’ Flag was raised on Parliament Hill this morning (Mon), in memory of the 150,000 Indigenous children who were forcibly separated from their families and communities and sent to residential schools. It will honour the Survivors, their families, the communities whose lives were forever changed, and those who never came home. A news release from the federal government says, “The residential school system in Canada robbed Indigenous children of their childhoods. It attempted to assimilate them, forcing them to abandon their languages, cultures, spiritualities, traditions, and identities. Many suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and many never returned home.”  The painful legacy of the residential school system lives on today for Indigenous Peoples from coast to coast.