A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Abigail Echo-Hawk is tired of working with data sets that erase urban Indigenous people. Echo-Hawk, who is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, is the executive vice-chair at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the board’s Urban Indian Health Institute. She regularly combs through large data sets from county, state or […]
Tkemlúps te Secwépemc and the Archdiocese of Vancouver will sign a “sacred covenant” this coming Easter Sunday, committing the church to share documents about the former Kamloops Residential School. Tkemlúps te Secwépemc Kúkpi7 Chief Rosanne Casimir says the documents are critical to the work of finding the children who never made it home from Residential […]
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is opening its doors to the UBC Vancouver community to highlight its important role on campus. Ahead of the first Open House on April 15, we spoke with Executive Director, Kristin Kozar about how the IRSHDC staff support Residential School Survivors and her plans to expand the […]
The mayor of Quesnel was forced to publicly denounce the actions of his wife, after actions in her private life reflected on the city’s public institutions. Mayor Ron Paull confirmed at the Tuesday evening council meeting that his wife, Pat Morton, was passing out copies of a book titled Grave Error – How The Media […]
