Wawatay News was impressed at the depth and breadth of you and your staff's presentation of Residential Schools: The Red Lake Story, which you presented last year. The research you and your staff have done was exceptional and supassed even the national exhibit with the details an dpersonal stories you presented. To adapt this exhibit to a virtual one should, naturally, be the next step as it would be available to a larger audience.

You and your staff put in such tremendous efforts to present the exhibition, Residential Schools: The Red Lake Story to citizens and visitors of Red Lake last spring. Our readers were able to benefit from this grotesque part of our history that has been silent. There is value and importance for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal visitors to realize the sufferings of Canada's First Nation children in residential schools and their impacts on today's generations.

By going on-line, I feel you could reach an even wider audience. Sadly there are many Canadians who are not aware of the specifics of this part of Canadian history. Your exhibit not only answers the 5 W's, it also puts a human face on the residential schools program. This program has affected the citizens of Red Lake. More people need to know this.

A virtual exhibit will also make it easier for Canadians to learn about this time period as they are not always at liberty to get to the museum. A virtual exhibit, on the other hand, will always be just a click away.

With that, I encourage you and your staff to make Residential Schools: The Red Lake Story a virtual exhibit.

Sincerely,

Joyce Hunter

Editor

Wawatay News