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Ermineskin Cree Nation members await Pope Francis' visit amid residential school reckoning

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Members of the Ermineskin Cree Nation in western Canada await the visit of Pope Francis, as the country reckons with the crimes and trauma that its residential school system inflicted upon First Nations children, who were forcibly enrolled in those institutions.

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