Today on Good Medicine, with Inez Beryl Spencer…

We hear the story of how Inez lost her sister, Victoria Kathlene Stewart, who was murdered by Ann Knizky at the United Church Residential School in Edmonton, Alberta.

Victoria was only nine years old when she passed on April 10th, 1958.

Speaking your traditional language is an act of resiliency, and honors those lost and suffering from residential school trauma. These stories can’t go forgotten. It’s hard to hear, hard to talk about, and even harder to experience it firsthand. But it is important to share these hard truths, to acknoledge them, and hold people accountable, so the past doensnt repeat itself.

These stories are important, they make a difference.