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Chanie Wenjack was a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy who died in 1966 while trying to walk home from a residential school in northern Ontario. He was born in Marten Falls Indian Reserve No. 65, Ogoki, Canada.
Chanie Wenjack was the eldest of seven children born to his parents, Maggie and Joseph Wenjack. He was a member of the Ogoki River Band of the Ojibway Nation.
Chanie was sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario, in September of 1966. He was only there for a few weeks before he decided to run away and try to walk home. He was found dead on October 23, 1966, after walking 600 kilometres in nine days.
Chanie's death sparked a national conversation about the legacy of residential schools and the need for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. His story was the subject of the 2016 graphic novel The Secret Path, written by Gord Downie and illustrated by Jeff Lemire.
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19 January 1954 |
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Marten Falls First Nation, Ontario, Canada |
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23 October 1966, |
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Farlane, Ontario, Canada |
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Today the story of Wenjack has been seen as a symbol of resistance against the residential school system. In 1973, indigenous students at Trent University lobbied for a building to be named after Wenjack. The largest lecture hall on campus was subsequently named Wenjack Theatre in Wenjack's honour. On March 9, 2018 Trent University marked the official launch of the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies.
In 2016, the Gord Downie-Chanie Wenjack Fund was established to help with reconciliation between Canada and its indigenous peoples.
On June 21, 2016, a Heritage Minute about Wenjack's death was released by Historica Canada to coincide with National Aboriginal Day. Unlike other Heritage Minutes that were narrated by actors, Wenjack's was narrated by his sister, Pearl.
The Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie wrote a concept album based on Wenjack's escape. The album, dubbed Secret Path, was released on October 18, 2016, along with a concurrent graphic novel of Wenjack's story by novelist Jeff Lemire and an animated film which aired on CBC Television.
Published in October 2016, a novella by Canadian author Joseph Boyden focused on the suffering Wenjack endured and his state of mind during his ordeal. Its title is simply Wenjack.
Ethical questions were raised and it brought to light the abuse and treatment of indigenous children in the residential school system. A year after Wenjack's death an article written by journalist Ian Adams, "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack," was published in February 1967 in Maclean's magazine. The article brought the ordeal to national attention.
On the morning of October 16, 1966, Wenjack and two school friends, orphaned brothers Ralph and Jackie MacDonald, ran away from the residential school, making it as far as Redditt, 31 km (19 mi) north of Kenora. Wenjack only brought seven matches. The three boys stayed with Ralph and Jackie's uncle, Charley Kelly, in Redditt. After four days with the Kellys, Wenjack left to follow the Canadian National Railway (CN) mainline, heading towards Ogoki Post, 600 km (370 mi) east and north from Kenora. He had found a CN passenger timetable which included a map and was using it as guide to get back home. The Kellys gave him some food and matches and suggested that he ask for help from the section maintenance crews stationed along the line.
On October 27, 1966, Wenjack was buried at the cemetery on the reserve beside the Albany River.
Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack (January 19, 1954 – October 23, 1966) was an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School where he boarded for three years while attending residential school in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He died of hunger and exposure at Farlane, Ontario while trying to walk 600 km (370 mi) back to his home, Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve. His ordeal and his death brought attention to the treatment of children in the Canadian Indian Residential School System and following Wenjack's death, an inquest into the matter was ordered by the Government of Canada.
Chanie Wenjack was born in 1954 on the Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve. At the age of nine, he was sent, along with his two sisters, to board at the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora. Once there, he was given the name 'Charlie'. The school was funded by the Canadian government and overseen by the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. At the time, 150 students lived at the school. Wenjack began his schooling at the age of nine and was put in remedial classes soon after. He was known to have a good sense of humour, according to the Cree Principal of the school, and was always the first to recognize a pun or riddle.
