Recently our class watched a movie called “The Secret Path”. The secret path is about a 12-year-old boy named Chanie Wenjack. He was born on January 19, 1954. Chanie is an Anishinaabe boy from Ontario. He grew up at Ogoki Post, on the Marten Falls Reserve, with his parents, sisters and two dogs. When Chanie turned 9 years old, he and his sisters were sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School. This is where he was named “Charlie.” Wenjack died on October 22, 1966, near Reddit, ON at the age of 12. He died while he was attempting to walk home, away from his residential school on railway tracks. He had to walk 400 miles total to get home. Since Charlie didn’t know that he had to walk that far, he kept going. So, after a while,
