About STARS

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Student Teachers Anti-Racism Society (STARS) promotes anti-racism education at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan through the support of the College. We work collaboratively to understand, identify, and address individual and systemic racism and its interlocking forms of oppression based on gender, sexuality, ability, class, religion and other socially constructed categories. We believe that anti-racist and decolonizing education, when woven together, can create humanizing and emancipatory change for everyone.

Friday, November 9, 2012

First Nations Catholic Saint

It appears that the Catholic Church is going to make a Mohawk woman from the 17thC a saint.  I know that some FN groups are looking at it as a positive thing, particularly those who identify as Catholic, and it might go a long way towards healing for survivors of the residential school system.  Despite that the process to make her a saint was begun more than 70 years ago, I still feel a bit apprehensive about it.  It would have meant everything to her, but I can't help but wonder if it isn't a political move on behalf of the Church. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mohawk-woman-to-become-catholic-saint-1.1140204

Is this a genuine gesture of healing, a strategic political move, a tokenization of an individual, or simply the making of a saint and completely unrelated to politics and FN people?

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