Donita’s father is a survivor of a residential school (as well as several other Cree & Metis family members), and so she needed a way to process the feelings that flooded her when the Kamloops Residential School mass grave story made the headlines. Not because she was shocked about the news but that it took, as she states, "the bones of our children" for Canadians to feel the truth of the large number of children who died at the schools.