A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
When Corinne Severight is asked to come to speak at the school in Hudson Bay, Sask., she always has a batch of fresh bannock with her. Severight, who is from Cote First Nation, helps teach about residential schools, First Nations history and her Saulteaux language because she wants a better future for her grandchildren. “I’ve […]
A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous children removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that “was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged.” The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says children across the country were forcibly removed from […]
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the International Criminal Court should investigate the disappearance of Indigenous children from Canadian residential schools. Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said she supports the call by Kimberly Murray — the federally-appointed Independent Special Interlocutor on Missing Children and Unmarked Graves […]
A residential school survivor says she is proud of decorated First Nations soldier, Tommy Prince of Brokenhead First Nation in Manitoba. Harriet Prince says she is a non-blood relative of Tommy Prince, one of 59 Canadians awarded the Silver Star during the Second World War…
