A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
ʕaaḥuusʔath (Ahousaht) First Nation will release the findings from phase one of its search for missing children who attended two residential schools in its territory on Wednesday in Ahousaht, B.C. In a news release Monday, ̣̣ʕaaḥuusʔath said the findings come from ground surveys, archival research and oral history. Ahousaht Indian Residential School on Maaqutusiis (Flores […]
The First Nations Health Authority is cutting off counselling coverage for former residential school students in B.C. and their families, as well as those of missing or murdered Indigenous women — unless they have a status card. Registered clinical counsellors and clients from First Nations across B.C. are outraged by the sudden change, which was […]
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs says it is “angered, disgusted and deeply disturbed” by the distribution of a book promoting residential school denialism by the wife of a mayor in the Canadian province. The First Nations representative organisation raised concerns over Pat Morton, the wife of the mayor of Quesnel, Ron Paull…
Abigail Echo-Hawk is tired of working with data sets that erase urban Indigenous people. Echo-Hawk, who is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, is the executive vice-chair at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the board’s Urban Indian Health Institute. She regularly combs through large data sets from county, state or […]
