A five-day-long Water Walk is now over.
The Junction Creek Water Walk was held over the last five days with First Nation Water Keepers carrying water from Junction Creek in Sudbury to the mouth of the Spanish River in the Town of Spanish.
The woman performed a short ceremony upon arrival at the mouth of the river and also welcomed the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and a welcome to National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Commemorations are planned across the country today, to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Central to the ceremonies will be vigils to honour the 215 children whose bodies were found in a mass grave at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B-C.
The organizers of a kids’ shoe memorial in Vancouver are urging Canadians to wear orange today, and pause to remember the children at 4 pm, eastern time, this afternoon.
