A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
In some of his final words, Berna Ross’s grandfather spoke of how nice it would be to reunite with his two daughters in heaven. It’s been decades since he’d seen his daughters Alice and Rosanna Drygeese, Ross’s aunties, who went away to residential school in Fort Resolution and never came home. Ross’s mother, Mary Jane, […]
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has passed an emergency resolution that calls on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism. The advocacy organization, which represents chiefs countrywide, is holding its annual general assembly in Ottawa this week. The resolution was passed on Tuesday. First Nations chiefs spoke about the importance of the resolution at a […]
The premier, a contingent of others from the legislative assembly, the RCMP, Canadian Rangers, representatives from the Catholic and Protestant churches and a host of dignitaries from various Indigenous groups paid their respects at a ceremony Monday morning, honouring the site where a remembrance monument will be built. The monument, which is a carefully selected […]
Every day, people walk through the doors of the National Indigenous Residential School Museum carrying different understandings of Canada’s history. Some arrive already familiar with the legacy of residential schools. Others are learning about it for the first time. And occasionally, museum staff encounter visitors who question whether parts of that history happened at all. Read more on […]
