A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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 […]
A charity that makes quilts for residential school survivors, based in Timmins, Ont., has received special recognition at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Inclusive Growth Awards. Vanessa Genier started Quits for Survivors in 2021 to honour, and bring a little joy, to survivors of residential schools, day schools and the Sixties Scoop…
When Tamara St. John saw a boy’s teeth and skull being exhumed from his 142-year-old grave at a cemetery in Carlisle, Penn., she cried. The South Dakota state legislator from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe had stood in the pouring rain for almost 12 hours, watching over the painstaking process that would bring home her “boys” […]
A Calgary based organization has found a new way to honour children lost at residential schools, using shoes…
