A school in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan is fostering reconciliation by inviting Corinne Severight, who is from Cote First Nation and is known as “grandma” or “kokum” to students, to visit students and teach about topics such as residential schools, First Nations history, and the Saulteaux language. Severight is helping with a program called A Loss of Language, which covers the history of residential schools. “I always tell them this — you can’t have a reconciliation unless you know the whole story,” said Severight. Severight also teaches students about foraging, clean water, and the impact that climate change has. “I want a better understanding between the people in our community,” said Severight, who noted that teaching children how to get along is important because “older people are already pretty much set in their ways.”
