A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Committee will have to cease operations when current agreement expires on March 31 An expert committee formed to help Indigenous communities find unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada says the federal government has discontinued its funding. “It’s a betrayal,” said founding member Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwich’in and grew up in Inuvik, […]
Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling on Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Minister Patty Hajdu to stop obstructing access to the Indian Registrar and other essential records needed to complete the investigation into the deaths of First Nations children who attended Residential Schools in Manitoba. […]
Indigenous peoples continue to struggle to access complete and timely records about Indian Residential Schools, according to a new report by the Senate standing committee on Indigenous Peoples. The report, Missing Records, Missing Children, was released Thursday and includes 11 recommendations to improve access to residential school records, including for the Canadian government to compel […]
Data sovereignty was under discussion in Ottawa on Wednesday at an event held by the National Advisory Committee on Residential School Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, also known as the NAC. According to Laura Arndt, head of the Six Nations Survivors Secretariat, there is a “lack of trust with government officials and institutions…
