It is a testament to his sincerity,” he added.įontaine, 77, said he and his classmates suffered physical and sexual abuse when he was a boy at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba “People were anxious that his health issues would force the cancellation of the Canadian papal tour, but clearly he sees it as important. More than 150,000 native children in Canada were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s in an effort to isolate them from their homes and culture. The aim was to Christianize and assimilate them into mainstream society, which previous Canadian governments considered superior. The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant at the schools, and that students were beaten for speaking their native languages. Indigenous leaders say the legacy of abuse and family separation as a root cause of the epidemic rates of alcohol and drug addiction on Canadian reservations. “We know that the Holy Father was deeply moved by his encounter with Indigenous Peoples in Rome earlier this year, and that he hopes to build on the important dialogue that took place,” the coordinator of the Canada visit, Archbishop Richard Smith, said in a statement. The president of the Canadian Catholic bishops’ conference, Bishop Raymond Poisson, thanked organizers and offered prayers for the pope. “We pray for the health of Pope Francis and also that his pastoral visit to Canada will bring reconciliation and hope to all those who will accompany our shepherd on this historic journey,” Poisson said in a statement.Obituary: Justin B. “If this crisis doesn’t end, it will only be in zoos that the black headed spider monkey survives,” Stedman said.NEWS SPORTS TRENDING NOW BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE COMMUNITY OPINION VIDEOS WEATHER 57.8 F. Stedman also hopes her long life will draw awareness to this. Stedman said Gummy’s many offspring have helped contribute to the survival of her species - the International Union for Conservation of Nature considers all spider monkeys threatened and lists a black-headed subspecies, the brown-headed spider monkey, as critically endangered. “We celebrated her life last year when she turned 60 and dedicated a fountain in the petting area to her memory,” Stedman said. No funeral services will be held for the sexagenarian monkey, but the zoo encouraged patrons to donate to wildlife conservation groups in her honor. The zoo said it is discussing plans for Sassy, Gummy’s granddaughter, and whether she would need to be rehomed in order for her to have a companion. “She comes to the door of her holding area, reaches out between the door and the opening and gently wraps her arm around my neck.” “In the morning when I start my routine, the first thing that I do is to take a minute to say good morning to Gummy,” an account on the web page said. Gummy was not just notable for her age, but for her behavior with keepers, the zoo said.
Though there is no official record of her birth (and an Idaho zoo celebrated a different species of spider monkey turning 60 last year), the zoo has stated she was the oldest of her species on record. She was presumed to have been born in the wild in 1962. Gummy first came to the zoo in 1981 from a wildlife facility in Florida after living for 18 years at the San Diego Zoo, according to an archived page on Fort Rickey’s website. The story was first reported by the Rome Sentinel and Utica Observer-Dispatch, which noted Gummy’s stay at the zoo was so long-lived that people who had met her as children would later take their own grandchildren to see her. She appeared to have died peacefully in her sleep, zoo owner Rebecca Stedman said in an email Thursday.
Gummy turned 61 this year, about twice the average lifespan of a black-headed spider monkey.
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