The Orangutan babies from the Twycross Zoo are a joy to watch. When they aren't trolling through the enclosure, they playfighting and today, a game of slapsies. Basuki is pulling his half-sister off the tree trunk. Kayan falls and does a roll. Then the fun of slapsies starts. Too funny!
It doesn't matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are; how you treat people and animals ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.
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‘I blamed my mother’: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation
‘I blamed my mother’: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation
Video: How residential school trauma passed down generation to generation (Global News)
In his case, North Peigan said his parents' suffering had been passed down generation to generation. To him and now his children.
North Peigan, 57, president of the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta, and the newly named national president of the Legacy of Hope Foundation, is from the Piikani First Nation in Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. Both of his parents were forced to attend an Indian Residential School (IRS).
The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children found in an unmarked burial site at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., brought back a flood of emotion.
"It's been really, really traumatic," said North Peigan, from his home in Edmonton, Alta. His parents survived the residential school system but the years following the return to their community were marred by the scars unseen.
North Peigan and his siblings were taken from their home during the Sixties Scoop, a government policy that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their birth parents and sent to foster homes and other families for adoption.
North Peigan said he lived in a number of different foster homes and it wasn't until he aged out of the child welfare system in 1978 that he was able to return back to his first nation.
"I came home with a lot of anger and a lot of rage," said North Peigan, "because I blamed my mother -- that she wasn't able to keep our family together.
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