A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
There are more than 30 private members’ bills currently on Parliament’s horizon at various stages before the House and Senate, including one from NDP MP Peter Julian, who’s looking to make some long-awaited progress this winter in completing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s now almost decade-old calls to action…
The 1923 Indian School scenes make for the show’s most harrowing moments in the Yellowstone period-drama spinoff — and the horrific abuse is made all the more difficult to watch by being based on real history. The 1923 scenes in question depict the physical and emotional abuse inside a Catholic boarding school…
An oral historian has begun conducting interviews with people whose family histories are intertwined with Oklahoma Catholic boarding schools for Native Americans. The interviews of former boarding school students and their descendants are being conducted to glean information for the Oklahoma Catholic Native Schools Project…
A new class-action lawsuit is seeking compensation for Indigenous people who attended day schools in Quebec that were under the jurisdiction of the provincial government. A Quebec Superior Court judge authorized the lawsuit last month on behalf of Indigenous people who allege they received lower-quality education than other Quebecers…
