A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Halifax officially has a new street name. The former Cornwallis Street is now Nora Bernard Street, named after the Mi’kmaq activist and residential school survivor. “It’s just incredible, it means so much,” says her daughter, Natalie MacLeod Gloade. Bernard led the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history in support of 79,000 other…
The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre(opens in a new tab) at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie is being honoured with a prestigious award from the Ontario Museum Association. The centre received the award of excellence in exhibitions for the world-famous exhibit, called Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall…
Just off the side of a long dirt road, Norma Kejick, the executive director of the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC), tells me that construction along this path leading to Pelican Falls First Nations High School is happening in stages. The reason, she says, is that the Bikiiwewining Nindawaashishiiminaanak…
Blake Angeconeb’s latest creation will receive plenty of attention. And though he is pleased with that, Angeconeb, an artist who paints in the Woodland style, admits he struggled greatly while creating a portrait of Chanie Wenjack. Wenjack was an Anishinaabe boy who died in October 1966 at the age of 12 running away from the […]
