Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride
I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school
Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

Survivors urge all political parties to support residential school burial investigations

Reconciliation, Residential School, Survivor Accounts

WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. As Canada’s federal election heats up, residential school survivors and their advocates are urging political parties to pledge full support for investigations into unmarked burials and missing children linked to the institutions. The previous Liberal government announced several initiatives following the findings of potential unmarked graves at […]

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Elder’s story of residential school abuse finally told

Residential School, Survivor Accounts

By the time she was eight, Betty Ross had been subjected to more than most children. She had been abandoned by her mother, was then adopted and cared for by a loving Indigenous family, before being kidnapped by a Catholic priest and taken to a residential school, where she endured years of beating and verbal […]

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Agnes Benn’s death and the hidden history of Birtle residential school’s predatory principal

Archives, Residential School, Survivor Accounts

The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn’t scream in his office. Helen MacKay, the teacher on duty that […]

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St. Anne’s survivor awarded $72K after review of denied abuse claim is still fighting

Class Actions, Government Statements, Residential School, Survivor Accounts

WARNING: This story contains details of abuse of children at residential schools For the residential school survivor known only as claimant T-00185, justice has been elusive. He alleged in 2009 under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement assessment process that he had been sexually abused by two older boys at the notorious St. Anne’s Indian […]

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