(08 09 12) KORI and KiHS facilitated a video conference between Patrick Bruyere, a residential school survivor and one of the First Nations runners who ran from St. Paul Minnesota to the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg in 1967 only to be turned away at the gates of the stadium, and high school students in remote and isolated First Nations communities in Ontario’s far north. Bruyere was in
“Young people are lucky today. After classes are done, high school students can go home and be with their parents. When I was a high school student, I was in residential school. When classes were done I went to a dorm.” KiHS is a way to give more community members the opportunity to remain home and get a high quality education using the latest Information Communication Technologies.
KORI would like to thank Patrick Bruyere for his courage to share his story with students in KiHS classrooms in remote and isolated First Nations communities in
And a special thanks to Laura Robinson, the journalist, playwright and film producer who had the courage to expand the boundary of sports reporting to include the stories beyond the scoreboard and the medal counts. It was her decision to write this story many years ago that was the catalyst that brought all us all together today.
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Watch the KORI web site for additional information about this event including an in-depth story by Rick Garrick and archived video segments from the video conference.