Saskatchewan residential school survivors and Indigenous leaders say they’re disappointed Pope Francis won’t be stopping in their province this summer.
They’re also unhappy the Vatican, not survivors, decided the pontiff would touch down only in Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit.
“It’s pretty disappointing,” Kinistin Saulteaux Nation Chief Felix Thomas said. “The problem from the start [of the residential school system] was that we had no say in things. And we saw how well that worked out.”
In 2017, Thomas and others worked for months on an effort to bring Francis to Wanuskewin Heritage Park, a gathering place for Indigenous people for more than 5,000 years near what
