Interview with Chief Littlechild and Archbishop Smith on Reconciliation | @ArchEdmonton

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Published 2021-06-05
An interview with Chief J. Wilton "Willie" Littlechild and Archbishop Richard Smith in Maskwacis on the reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, and the response to the finding at the Kamloops Residential School site.

Chief Littlechild is a former Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations. He was also a commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a member of the 1977 Indigenous delegation to the United Nations, and worked on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada, Alberta Order of Excellence, and Queens Counsel.

A joint statement referenced in this interview made by the two leaders is available at    • Chief Littlechild and Archbishop Smit...  .
All Comments (21)
  • @6williamson
    It's humbling and an honor to see Chief Littlechild who both benefited from the schools (he is a lawyer, after all) and sees the problems and seeks hope in the future.
  • @mechtildmorin5174
    Thank you for sharing and giving hope! Peace, love and respect to everyone!
  • @Eowyn3Pride
    Thank you! The truth grants us the opportunity to experience God's Mercy, the Creator's goodness. ❤
  • @3abbosi
    In the beginning of his speech, the chief mentioned the world "reconciliation" more than once.... that's what we need... reconciliation not burning, vandalizing & creating more hate & divisiveness. As a Canadian of Christian Iraqi origin I never thought I'd see what's happening in Iraq, Syria & Egypt happening here in Canada... Churches burnt to the ground with the government doing absolutely nothing about it.
  • @DS-jh7xy
    Diddler was disappointed when he found out he actually wasn't a little child...
  • @maryanndeweerd2570
    Thankyou ⚔🙏 My condolences for the treacherous treatment your people have endured in the name of religious education. Much respect.
  • @jean-guydallaire6527
    Enjoyed your conversations on reconcilliation and your last word Chief Littlechild on what can I do "...listen to your call to action..." a wonderful message to reconcilliation.
  • @FreeMind320
    As a non-indigenous I have lots to learn about reconciliation, peace and compassion. If they would have done this to my community I suspect that I could not find that strength calling for a non violent dialog. The indigenous people have a lot to teach to the world!
  • @terrygregg2858
    How could this have been a shock? So you turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the Truth and Reconciliation Report and the TRC - Calls to Action. Please pressure for a formal apology and meaningful reparation for each unmarked grave representing a child. The families/ancestors deserve compensation. Negotiate directly unencumbered by legal battles. Reconciliation starts with accountability. The RC Church remains the only church to have not made a formal apology.
  • @canadiangenocide9152
    Archbishop Smith, what is your stance on legal justice being brought by those who were involved in these residential schools and are still alive?
  • @lindachristianson196
    Follow the law. Investigate and arrest all those responsible and/or aided and abetted In the deaths of the children. I’m Catholic and no organization or person(s) should be Above the Law.
  • @Daniellasanche
    With or without churches, residential schools and assimilating them into the new country had to happen. With or without the Christian faith, abuse still happens.
  • @arnevontorgau9311
    Dear Chief J. Wilton, befor you as a representative of the victims call for reconcilliation all the crimes and murders under the roof of the roman catholic churches/schools in Canada have to be revealed and the names of the killers have to be published! Lets not talk about the crimes, but lets talk about reconcilliation is that the strategy you two offer? You need a truth and reconcilliation comittee like it happened in RSA not a fast coverup of the damage.
  • @caroleforster3117
    I admire Chief Littlechild for his patience and conciliatory attitude towards the Roman Catholic Church. In my opinion no reconciliation is possible until the Pope gives a sincere apology from the church and pays compensation for the criminal actions of supposedly "Christian" priests and nuns under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • @stefannysimanjuntak2066
    BARBARIC CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS ⬇️⬇️ 1 samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. JOSHUA 6:21:And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 20:16: of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: MATTHEW 10:34  “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. LUKE:12:49:  “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!  Luke:12:51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. LUKE19:27: But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’” MATTHEW:25:30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. CHRISTIAN INVOLVEMENT pray for children canada😭😭
  • @elizabethsommers7486
    Yes the catholic church should pay apologize make amends and take responsibility they are complicit to abuse in residential schools the proof is in the dead bodies found
  • @douglasblack1501
    With catholic church,they are sorry they got caught,and they want forgiveness,the are not above the law,root out all.