Indigenous author and residential school survivor appointed to the order of Canada

Michelle Good from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is one of 80 people appointed to the order of Canada this year. Good is an author, advocate, lawyer, sixties scoop and residential school survivor View video on APTNNews.ca    

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Students were forced to dispose of newborns at Kuper Island residential school, says survivor

“They stripped us of our dignity. They raped us. They whipped us, and they did everything possible to … defeat us mentally, physically,” survivor says.

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‘Kaatagoging’: New book series honours residential school survivors | APTN News

A group of residential school survivors and supporters gathered to launch a new book series called “Kaatagoging”, which means “grave” or “returning to the earth” in Anishinaabemowin..

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Murray Sinclair, former senator who led Truth and Reconciliation Commission, dead at 73

Murray Sinclair, the Anishinaabe senator and renowned Manitoba lawyer who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has died at age 73. Sinclair died at a Winnipeg hospital early Monday morning “peacefully and surrounded by love,” his family said in a statement. “Mazina Giizhik (the One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky) committed his life […]

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