A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
To get to the post office in North West River, for years Joanna Michel would pass the residential school where she spent eight years in the 1970s. “It’s a bad reminder of what happened, what took place there,” she says, sitting in an empty conference room at the Innu Round Table Secretariat office in Sheshatshiu. […]
A residential school survivors’ group on the verge shutdown due to a lack of funding is accusing the federal government of breaking promises and lying to survivors about Canada’s commitment to uncovering the truth. The Survivors’ Secretariat, which is conducting an investigation into missing children and unmarked burials associated with the former Mohawk Institute Indian […]
Murray Sinclair, a lifelong Anishinaabe visionary and a member of the Peguis First Nation, near Winnipeg, Man., has died at the age of 73. The former senator who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has left a legacy of hope and justice for his people and perhaps some unexpected but nonetheless valuable enlightenment for non-Indigenous […]
OTTAWA — An organization that works to document what happened at a notorious residential school says it’s at risk of going bankrupt by the end of the month unless Canada makes a decision on whether it will fund the group’s work.The Survivors’ Secretariat, which works to uncover the truth about what happened at the Mohawk […]
