Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride
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Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

Local journalist and residential school survivor central figure in award-winning film

Documents, Every Child Matters, Residential School

Former Sarnian Faith Howe did not set out to produce an award-winning, full length documentary about the survivors of the Mohawk Institute, the first and longest-operating residential school in Canada. It just naturally unfolded that way. Howe, who began film-making in her 50s after a long career in marketing and fundraising, says she was working […]

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As an archeologist, it’s impossible to ignore evidence of harm at Indian Residential Schools

Denialism, Every Child Matters, Residential School

I am an archeologist. It’s a field that I was initially drawn to because it felt comfortably distant from the things that got people upset. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In recent years, we archeologists have found ourselves drawn into deeply acrimonious debates about Canada’s history with Indigenous Peoples. It makes sense. Our profession […]

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