‘It’s bulls–t’: families react to coroner’s report into 8 dead First Nations children
(Kanina Sue Turtle, middle, with father Clarence Suggashie and mother Barbara Suggashie visiting Poplar Hill…
(Kanina Sue Turtle, middle, with father Clarence Suggashie and mother Barbara Suggashie visiting Poplar Hill…
An Ontario coroner wouldn’t pay to unlock the iPod of a 15-year-old girl who…
It’s a foster home Barbara Suggashie could never go in – until this week.
Barbara Suggashie is walking 320 kilometres to the foster home in Sioux Lookout where her daughter Kanina Sue Turtle took her own life. As she walks, Suggashie is wondering what she is going to say when she gets to the home.
It’s about 314 kilometres from Red Lake to Sioux Lookout, where Kanina died.
“Just take away your consent, exert your sovereignty in a matriarchal way.”
“She described it. She would say, ‘We agreed to. We promised each other.”
An investigation into the deaths of children living in residential care, including seven Indigenous children, has found potential criminality.
The Sioux Lookout home is known as an “agency operated home” and is owned by Tikinagan.