A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A residential school survivor says she is proud of decorated First Nations soldier, Tommy Prince of Brokenhead First Nation in Manitoba. Harriet Prince says she is a non-blood relative of Tommy Prince, one of 59 Canadians awarded the Silver Star during the Second World War…
WARNING: This article talks about abuse of children at residential schools. Kimberly Murray has opened an uncomfortable but long overdue conversation about justice for Canada’s “disappeared” residential school children, Indigenous leaders say. Murray, the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools, got a standing ovation Tuesday after she released her two-volume […]
Survivors of residential schools in northwestern Ontario are returning to the sites of those former schools. Grand Council Treaty Three’s Indian Residential School Department is organizing reunions for those who attended one of the six schools that operated in Treaty 3 territory. An event in Fort Frances on Monday attracted over 100…
A Manitoba First Nation and an advocacy group are hosting a conference in Winnipeg this week to discuss the need for national legislation that would protect Indigenous ancestral remains and belongings in Canada. The Protecting our Ancestors conference is hosted by Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) — an advocacy organization that represents dozens of First Nations in […]
