Indigenous History, Culture, and Contemporary Realities

A collaboration between Neepawa and Area Immigrant Settlement Services, the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada, and NACTV, we bring you this session where residential school survivors and newcomers to Canada discuss Indigenous culture and history and the legacy of residential schools in Canada…

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Innu survivor wants former Labrador residential school building turned into a museum

To get to the post office in North West River, for years Joanna Michel would pass the residential school where she spent eight years in the 1970s. “It’s a bad reminder of what happened, what took place there,” she says, sitting in an empty conference room at the Innu Round Table Secretariat office in Sheshatshiu. […]

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Residential school survivors’ group on verge of shutdown amid lack of funding from Canada

A residential school survivors’ group on the verge shutdown due to a lack of funding is accusing the federal government of breaking promises and lying to survivors about Canada’s commitment to uncovering the truth. The Survivors’ Secretariat, which is conducting an investigation into missing children and unmarked burials associated with the former Mohawk Institute Indian […]

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PATRICIA BAKER: Refuting ‘reality’ of Residential Schools a ‘far-reaching’ denial

Murray Sinclair, a lifelong Anishinaabe visionary and a member of the Peguis First Nation, near Winnipeg, Man., has died at the age of 73. The former senator who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has left a legacy of hope and justice for his people and perhaps some unexpected but nonetheless valuable enlightenment for non-Indigenous […]

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