A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
First Nations leaders are asking the federal and provincial governments for financial support to see a private campground expropriated which they suspect contains unmarked graves. But the owner of the campground says he believes the remains of children can be respected and memorialized without shutting his business down…
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Chief Greg Nadjiwon stood behind a microphone in front of a sacred fire and spoke about the time he broke down crying in the halls of a former residential school near Algoma University. Dozens dressed in orange listened to the chief at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden…
The National Advisory Committee on missing children and unmarked graves hosted a community event in Truro Saturday to bring together the voices of residential school survivors. “To be able to come together and offer that support and be able to share those stories and share those steps on that journey to healing is important…
On September 29, U of T held its fourth annual institution-wide event commemorating Orange Shirt Day. The day, observed on September 30, honours Indigenous children who did and did not survive the residential school system and highlights Canadian institutions’ need to actively seek reconciliation. The ceremony highlighted the Indian Residential School Survivors’ Storybase — a resource…
