A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Canadian residential schools have once again found themselves in Hollywood, this time as a focal documentary at the Sundance Film Festival premiere on Jan. 20 in Park City, Utah. Filmmakers and journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen) and Emily Kassie created an investigative documentary…
In a barren field of sagebrush alongside a road through the Osoyoos Indian Band, Chief Clarence Louie stands atop a concrete pad and surveys the rubble in front of him. This used to be the front entrance to St. Gregory’s, the simple wooden church that hosted countless community celebrations, dinners and religious services, on the […]
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…
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…
