{"id":52908,"date":"2021-07-06T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=52908"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:06:41","slug":"solidarity-with-indigenous-on-canadaday-in-smithers-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/solidarity-with-indigenous-on-canadaday-in-smithers-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with Indigenous communities on #canadaday in Smithers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The town square pavilion (\"Bovill Square\") was the site of a reflective Canada Day on July 1 in Smithers.<\/div>\n
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There were no fireworks and not a Canadian flag to be seen, but, instead, orange shirts that read Skak ts\u00efewh hibibe onzin<\/em>, which means \"children are the heart of our community\"<\/em> in Wet'suwet'en.<\/div>\n
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Ronald Alfred Mitchell, a Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en descendant of a residential school survivor, spoke with CICK News during #canadaday<\/a> for the #solidarity<\/a> event for Indigenous children who were forced into residential schools in Canada.<\/div>\n
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Listen to this episode to the interview with Ronald Alfred Mitchell and to hear words from Smithers Mayor Gladys Atrill, and a local public health nurse who works with Indigenous communities in the North:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The town square pavilion (“Bovill Square”) was the site of a reflective Canada Day on July 1 in Smithers. There were no fireworks and not a Canadian flag to be seen, but, instead, orange shirts that read Skak ts\u00efewh hibibe onzin, which means “children are the heart of our community” in Wet’suwet’en. Ronald Alfred Mitchell,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":52912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221,3265],"tags":[8198,979,980,654,8146],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=52908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}