Indigenous family demands apology after fence built around a grave as part of an Anishnawbe tradition was removed.
Allan Wassaykeesic visits the grave of his late mother, Janet, and sister, Nellie, on November 15, 2022, at the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Pickle Lake, Ontario.
It was a seven-hour drive from Ms. Wassaykeesic’s home in Ear Falls. She brought her partner, Jon, and their three children. Two months later, Ms. Wassaykeesic got a call from a friend in Pickle Lake: the fence had been torn down. Stephanie says no one had contacted her or anyone else in her large family, most of whom live in the area around Pickle Lake. “That was the heartbreaking part. No letter, no call, no e-mail, no Facebook message.”
Millar said the council couldn’t reach anyone in the Wassaykeesic family. “It’s very regrettable that the whole situation happened, but the facts are, it should never have gone up.”
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