July 1st is Canada Day, a federal holiday meant to mark the nations birth but this year, many Canadians have chosen to cancel celebrations in favour of solemn reflection.For over 100 years, Canada had a policy of removing First Nation and Indigenous children as young as six years old from their families and placing them in residential schools run jointly by churches and the government.The idea at the time (and this time lasted up until 1996) was to assimilate indigenous children into white society. Not only did the policy fail, countless lives were stolen, countless children were murdered. The past few months, thanks to improved technology, unmarked graves with hundreds of childrens remains were uncovered across Canada, first in British Columbia, and last week in Saskatchewan.Riem Higazi spoke with First Nation politician Sol Mamakwa about a decidedly different Canada Day this year.