A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A report released Wednesday by the Yellowhead Institute took aim at the federal government’s lack of progress in implementing calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation’s final report that was released in 2015. The report writers have said that they are “are exasperated by the deep chasm between the two and frustrated by…
A new early learning centre in Maskwacis, Alta., is a place to nurture imagination and growth while also fulfilling treaty rights to education, according to speakers at the grand opening on Friday. The centre for children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten is named after Theresa Wildcat, a residential school survivor who became…
The Manitoba government introduced a bill in the legislature Monday to make Sept. 30 — the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a statutory holiday. Giving workers under the province’s jurisdiction the day off would allow them to remember the impact of the residential school system on Indigenous children, Premier Wab Kinew said…
he Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania was the first government-run residential school in North America. Earlier this fall, the remains of two boys, who died there more than a century ago, were returned to their tribes in South Dakota, over 2,000 kilometres away. It’s a process that took six years — and has only […]
