Family of man in residential school denied federal funds to repatriate remains because he died as an adult

Family of man in residential school denied federal funds to repatriate remains because he died as an adult | CBC News Loaded From there, he was sent to a number of hospitals, including a mental health institution formerly known as the Orillia Asylum for Idiots, without his parents’ knowledge or consent. In 1966, when he […]

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“The rest of the country is waking up to what First Nations people have always known”: Tanya Talaga on her new book, The Knowing

Tanya Talaga is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, All Our Relations and now, The Knowing, an intimate exploration of her family’s experience with residential schools. A member of Fort William First Nation in Northern Ontario, Talaga spent nearly 25 years as a reporter for the Toronto Star covering city hall and Queen’s Park…

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AMC Calls on ISC and Minister Hajdu to End Obstruction and Release Critical Records for Residential School Investigations

Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling on Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Minister Patty Hajdu to stop obstructing access to the Indian Registrar and other essential records needed to complete the investigation into the deaths of First Nations children who attended Residential Schools in Manitoba. […]

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An elopement, quarry carving and letters home: records shed light on Pipestone’s Indian boarding school

Raymond Derby never knew much about his great-grandparents’ lives a century ago at an Indian boarding school in southwestern Minnesota — only that they were among the thousands of students who attended the school over a 60-year period, from 1893 to 1953. Today, however, he knows his great-grandmother was a “strong-willed” woman who ran away […]

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