A Lytton First Nations mother has received an apology after she posted a TikTok video about a headdress that her son had to craft at a preschool in Coquitlam, B.C.
"A lot of the comments on the TikTok that I got were, 'well, I did this when I was a child,'" Sinclair said.The headdresses crafted by children in the French immersion preschool had 'Chaque enfant compte' written on them.
She also said the timing of the craft lesson — particularly the day before Orange Shirt Day but also a month before Halloween, wherePromise to do better"This just proves how much we need to learn and unlearn," Banfield told CBC News. "I had no idea that I was so ignorant." Preschool co-owner Mila Banfield, right, talks with Samantha Sinclair. Banfield says she promised Sinclair the preschool would do better going forward.
Banfield said she hopes to bring Indigenous leaders into the school in the future, and said she wanted to apologize not only to Sinclair, but also to all Indigenous peoples.
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