A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Like Residential Schools, Day Schools and reserves in Canada, Indian Hospitals were created as a method to segregate, isolate and control Indigenous people Because of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Orange Shirt Day, non-Indigenous Canadians are becoming more aware of Residential Schools in Canada. However, most still remain unaware of Indian Hospitals. Indian Hospitals in […]
A First Nations health analyst in Saskatchewan is sharing the story of a woman who as a child spent eight months in the basement of Holy Family Hospital in Prince Albert in a segregated ward-in the hope others will come forward. Brenda Robertson works in the First Nations Health Ombudsperson’s office in Saskatoon and says […]
The federal government has opened up a claims period for those who were harmed at segregated health facilities known as Indian hospitals — though an N.W.T. elder warns that recalling painful details from the past could be difficult for some survivors. There were about 33 federal Indian hospitals that operated between 1936 and 1981. Following a court-approved settlement in […]
It’s a day the Onabigon family has spent decades waiting for: the repatriation of their uncle, Percy Onabigon, back to Long Lake #58 First Nation. Percy was taken from the northern Ontario community as a young child and put into St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School in Thunder Bay. From there, he was sent to a […]
