Terry Bunting
A Grassy Narrows resident has started a walk in memory of the 215 children who were discovered in a mass grave in Kamloops.
Terry Bunting is headed to the site of the McIntosh Residential School near Vermilion Bay.
It’s called a healing walk.
Bunting is a member of the Wabauskang First Nation near Ear Falls and says he’s also walking for the children who died in the residential school system.
“Voices that were never heard…those are the voices I’m walking for today and they were never heard,” explains Bunting.
“They were just little kids. That’s why I’m doing this walk…for my people.”
Bunting thinks there will be more mass graves found.
“We need to look more….we look in our waters…we look in our land…we need to look everywhere…we need to bring them home. That’s my purpose. Bringing the youth home that never got to come home.”
In the meantime, the annual McIntosh Residential School Survivor Spring Feast will take place Friday.
There will also be a flag-raising ceremony and a one-day pow-wow on the McIntosh Residential School grounds Saturday from 10:00am until 3:00pm.
