Murray Sinclair was ‘heavy with the stories’ of residential school survivors: Tanya Talaga

Murray Sinclair carried within himself the stories of thousands of residential school survivors, and felt the weight of every single one, says his friend Tanya Talaga. Sinclair, the Anishinaabe senator and renowned Manitoba lawyer who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has died at age 73. The TRC’s groundbreaking 2015 reports laid bare horrific truths about this […]

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Residential school survivor turned to sketching to pass the time

STOUGHTON – Brian McArthur, a talented Indigenous artist from Ocean Man First Nations (OMFN), has transformed a challenging chapter of his life into a profound source of inspiration for his artwork. At first, he did not know this was going to help him. McArthur went to a residential school from Grades 1-8, and he said […]

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Former Mohawk residential school inmate tells his story

We talk with artist Gary Miller. His current exhibit at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center – “Our Path Forward” – expresses his experience as a child inmate at the Mohawk Institute*, a residential school in Canada. He joins us for the hour to tell his story. Gary Miller, artist and former child inmate of the […]

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Tell us what you want to know by Sept. 12

Kids across the country will hear difficult and traumatic stories about residential schools later this month. Every year on Sept. 30, classrooms mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. From 1831 to 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were sent to schools that were designed to remove […]

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