Many indigenous teens have experienced incidents of racism in Thunder Bay, such as having eggs thrown at them from passing cars. Kakekayash told me that when he was in the river, he started to believe that he was about to die. In 2007-08, he transferred to Thunder Bay, where he attended Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School for indigenous youth from the Sioux Lookout district, run by the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council. Then he saw an out-of-service Thunder Bay bus. Kakekayash’s mother flew to Thunder Bay to take her son home.

Source: thestar November 25, 2016 01:32 UTC