A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Unmarked burials and the experiences of Inuit and northern communities will be the focus of a conference opening in Iqaluit later this week. Participants from across the country will attend the sixth National Gathering on Unmarked Burials, running Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 at the Aqsarniit hotel…
Benjamin Kucher, president of the Indigenous Graduate Students’ Association (ISGA) at the University of Alberta, says denialism about the harmful legacy of Indian residential schools has picked up. He doesn’t have to go far to illustrate his point. As the association prepares to host University of Manitoba historian and…
The National Advisory Committee on missing children and unmarked graves hosted a community event in Truro Saturday to bring together the voices of residential school survivors. “To be able to come together and offer that support and be able to share those stories and share those steps on that journey to healing is important…
Chanie Wenjack was an Anishanaabe boy born in Ogoki Post on the Marten Falls Reserve Jan. 19, 1954. “Chanie’s story, tragically, is like so many stories of Indigenous children in this country; he fell victim to Canada’s colonization of Indigenous peoples,” states the About section of the Gordon Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund website…
