The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation Christmas Cooking and ritzy rocks

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Little Witch Hazel is a beautiful ode to nature

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celebrates the power of stories and written languages—and the imperative to preserve them

change-making activities with potentially big impacts

The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation Christmas Cooking and ritzy rocksFor more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada. Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that history is never forgotten. The Blanket is a living work of arta collection of hundreds of objects from those schools. It includes everything from photos, bricks, hockey skates, graduation certificates, dolls and piano keys to braids of hair. Behind