‘This is my church’: Residential school survivor skips papal visit to follow in ancestors’ footsteps
When Pope Francis addresses residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alberta on Monday, one survivor will not be in the audience or see him on a screen. Instead, Norman Yak’eula plans to trek hundreds of kilometers to the northwest, deep into the Mackenzie Mountains and dense scrub of the Northwest Territories, following the ancestral route of …