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A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.

After 144 years, bringing home remains from a residential school – #podcast

November 17, 2023

he Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania was the first government-run residential school in North America. Earlier this fall, the remains of two boys, who died there more than a century ago, were returned to their tribes in South Dakota, over 2,000 kilometres away. It’s a process that took six years — and has only begun the healing and closure to the people who were part of it…

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