Once it was the site of a building for the former Alberni Indian Residential School, one of the most notorious such institutions in British Columbia and a place linked to suffering and abuse of Indigenous children.
"It's because we want children to be happy there and play there," said Tseshaht First Nation Elected Chief Councillor Wahmeesh. "The survivors talked about how great it was to see them dance on that site previously."
Wahmeesh, whose English name is Ken Watts, announced the detection of 17 suspected grave sites, and the conclusion that 67 children who attended the school had died. "We gathered survivors and literally asked them, what do we do next?" Wahmeesh said of how he approached the "sacred responsibility" of announcing the search results.
Caldwell Hall is still being used by First Nation officials for office and workshop space, but Wahmeesh said it remains an "open wound" for survivors, many of whom refuse to go there because of the emotional trauma it triggers."That's my biggest fear.…They can afford to build them and run them, they can afford to tear it down and help us build new and reclaim the space."
Alberni Indian Residential School was one of six residential sites where children were subjected to government-sanctioned nutrition experiments without the consent of their parents, a fact discovered by researcher Ian Mosby in 2013 after searching through records. "This is the value of decolonized methodology. It is a prioritizing and foregrounding of lived experience, and the supplemental use of the historical record to support and fill in the picture."
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