News & Updates
A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Residential school survivor on the importance of honouring Indigenous veterans | APTN News
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…
Indigenous leaders praise report on Canada’s ‘disappeared’ residential school children
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 area residential schools reunite
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…