Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride
I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school
Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools

Day School, Documents, Residential School

Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and document the forced assimilation of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children in government-funded boarding schools. House Joint Resolution 17 acknowledges the trauma Indian boarding schools inflicted on Indigenous communities in Alaska and across the country, said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. […]

Read Article

Residential school survivors and legal advocates are demanding the federal government call a public inquiry to investigate their claims that survivors’ records are being withheld and the Department of Justice is biased against them.

Documents, Residential School

Residential school survivors and legal advocates are demanding the federal government call a public inquiry to investigate their claims that survivors’ records are being withheld and the Department of Justice is biased against them. At a meeting of the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples on Tuesday, Fay K. Brunning…

Read Article

The story of an Innu boy 400 years ago may have been the template for residential schools

Documents, Every Child Matters

The story begins in 1620. The Mayflower lands in what’s now New England, as religious wars were tearing Europe apart. Later that same year, another ship leaves the “New World,” bound for France. On it was a young Innu boy. We know his name: Pastedechouan. The fact that we know it is the result of […]

Read Article

Why Indigenous people are fighting for data sovereignty

Data Sovereignty, Documents, Residential School

Abigail Echo-Hawk is tired of working with data sets that erase urban Indigenous people. Echo-Hawk, who is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, is the executive vice-chair at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the board’s Urban Indian Health Institute. She regularly combs through large data sets from county, state or […]

Read Article