A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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 […]
The Orange Shirt Society has developed a Speaker Series featuring Indian residential school survivors. These testimonials focus on the firsthand experiences and enduring repercussions of residential schools on individuals, families, and communities. Executive Assistant and Program Manager for the Survivor Voices Speaker Series…
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 […]
Residential school survivors from across Ontario recently gathered in Sault Ste. Marie to share their stories and hear about the ongoing effort to find the children who never made it home. Here are some extended interview clips with eight of the survivors…
