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<p>Elder John R. Prosper and Settler Dorothy A. Lander invite you to join them on their pilgrimage, which is guided by St. Anne, the patron saint of the Mi’kmaw people. As St. Anne’s emissary, Mi’kmaw fiddler Joe Marble, a member of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation in Antigonish County, Mi’kmaki, appeared on Facebook via a 1939 article in the diocesan newspaper <em>The Casket</em>, which traced his life as a virtuoso musician from his childhood in Heatherton. Sacred timing – the Facebook posting surfaced in the last week of March 2022 just as the delegation of Indigenous Canadians were in Rome demanding an apology from Pope Francis for the role of the Catholic Church in Indian Residential Schools. </p><p><br></p><p>Elder John R. Prosper: I encourage anyone interested in life on the Indian Reserve in the early 40’s and 50’s to read this book. It is my and the Prosper family story of how we survived the hardship and suffering when we were forced to move from Paqtnkek to the Shubenacadie Indian Reserve when the Department of Indian Affairs implemented the Centralization Policy in 1942. It is also the story of how the Dept. of Indian Affairs forced us to attend the Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie. By way of her own story, Dorothy calls on settlers to own the “truth” of their intergenerational history of white supremacy and colonization. Two-eyed-seeing as a primary resource for settler allies, demands truth before reconciliation. </p>