A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Norman Kistabish says he remembers when he was seven years old, he wanted to follow his brother to the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Indian Residential School. The excitement of joining his sibling quickly vanished when he saw and experienced abuse in the school. “The day I arrived I was hungry. I was so hungry. At supper time I ate…
She taught them Mohawk languages. Now, she’s working alongside her former students in a quest to uncover the truth of a troubling past. Diane Hill, a retired teacher from Six Nations of the Grand River, was taken to the Mohawk Institute Residential School on Nov. 22, 1963, at the age of seven. She was beaten […]
Standing in the provincial legislature, MPP Sol Mamakwa shared his experiences from being born in the Sioux Lookout Indian Hospital to attending a residential school. Mamakwa, the MPP for Kiiwetinoong and NDP deputy leader, rose at Queen’s Park on Thursday and spoke for nearly eight minutes, detailing how he is a “survivor…
Rick Wabano was sitting in his Grade 2 classroom in Moosonee when a priest came in, took him home to pack a bag and then brought him down to the float plane dock. He and two of his younger siblings were flying further up Ontario’s James Bay Coast to the St. Anne’s Indian Residential School […]
