Indigenous leaders praise report on Canada’s ‘disappeared’ residential school children

WARNING: This article talks about abuse of children at residential schools. Kimberly Murray has opened an uncomfortable but long overdue conversation about justice for Canada’s “disappeared” residential school children, Indigenous leaders say.  Murray, the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools, got a standing ovation Tuesday after she released her two-volume […]

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Canadian investigations into residential schools for Indigenous children threatened by cuts

In Canada, September 30 is dedicated to “truth and reconciliation” with Aboriginal communities. Recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this day, which has been a statutory holiday since 2021, “honors the children who were never returned home and Survivors of Residential Schools, as well as their families and communities,” it is explained on the […]

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What Lies Beneath Canada’s Former Indigenous School Sites Fuels a Debate

The revelation convulsed all of Canada. Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families. It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications […]

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