Quesnel will welcome the witness blanket to town late this year.
A lot of details still have to be ironed out.
On that note, Amy Robertson, the Cultural Instructor at the Native Friendship Centre, says they will be hosting a public meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon between 1 and 2 o’clock.
“This meeting is just to discuss any community questions that people may have about the blanket and to get some ideas and feedback as to how we can best present this project within our community.”
Robertson says the blanket will be set up in the foyer at the College of New Caledonia late this year.
“The blanket will be coming in the first part of November. And it will be here until the middle to end of December. It’s an enormous piece that actually replicates a blanket look. The display itself is 10 feet high by about 42 feet in length.”
Robertson says the witness blanket is basically a compilation of replicated artifacts.
“The originals are in a museum actually in Manitoba. But it’s a collection of replicated artifacts that were collected from all of the different residential schools Canada-wide, and each of them comes with a story about that specific residential school and some of the survivors, both past tense and present tense survivors.”
Robertson says they’ve been working on getting the blanket for a while.
“This has been in the works, I booked it about a year and a half to two years ago.”
The witness blanket was in Williams Lake a couple of years ago.
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