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

Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools

Residential School

Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and document the forced assimilation of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children in government-funded boarding schools. House Joint Resolution 17 acknowledges the trauma Indian boarding schools inflicted on Indigenous communities in Alaska and across the country, said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. […]

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B.C. First Nation scouring old residential school site for possible burial shafts

Residential School, Unmarked Graves

Former students of Lejac Residential School in B.C.’s Central Interior are guiding a geotechnical team searching for possible human remains near the school. Chief Beverly Ketlo of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation said the survey area was outside the established cemetery at the old school, on the south side of Fraser Lake on reserve land. […]

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Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools

Day School, Documents, Residential School

Alaska lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a federal proposal that would investigate and document the forced assimilation of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children in government-funded boarding schools. House Joint Resolution 17 acknowledges the trauma Indian boarding schools inflicted on Indigenous communities in Alaska and across the country, said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. […]

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Tsleil-Waututh Nation looks to build residential school memorial garden

Commemoration, Reconciliation, Repatriation, Residential School

It may just be an empty lot with invasive species, but Andrea Aleck has big plans for a plot of land in the heart of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation reserve. Following conversations with community Elders, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation health and wellness director has brought forward plans to transform the space into a residential school memorial park and […]

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