A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
In the spirit of truth and reconciliation, a Survivors’ Flag was unveiled Tuesday morning outside Simcoe Hall at Lakehead University in Orillia. Linda Rodenburg, principal of Lakehead’s Orillia campus, says the flag honours the victims of 140 federally run residential schools, their families, and communities.”I have a nine-year-old…
The Orange Shirt Society has developed a Speaker Series featuring Indian residential school survivors. These testimonials focus on the firsthand experiences and enduring repercussions of residential schools on individuals, families, and communities. Executive Assistant and Program Manager for the Survivor Voices Speaker Series…
Kids across the country will hear difficult and traumatic stories about residential schools later this month. Every year on Sept. 30, classrooms mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. From 1831 to 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were sent to schools that were designed to remove […]
I am an archeologist. It’s a field that I was initially drawn to because it felt comfortably distant from the things that got people upset. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In recent years, we archeologists have found ourselves drawn into deeply acrimonious debates about Canada’s history with Indigenous Peoples. It makes sense. Our profession […]
