CBC – A monument unveiled on the Whitehorse waterfront on Thursday offers a place for people to sit and reflect on the residential school history of the Yukon and Canada. It honours former students of the Whitehorse Indian Mission School, which operated from 1947 to 1960. Artist Ken Anderson designed the monument. The Teslin Tlingit Council member met with former students to learn about their vision for the project.

The end product includes nine wooden stools in a circular formation on a concrete block, around an etching of the former school. The nine stools represent the language groups of the students who attended the Whitehorse Indian Mission School. Each stool is made from local wood.