Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride
I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school
Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

Residential school survivors and legal advocates are demanding the federal government call a public inquiry to investigate their claims that survivors’ records are being withheld and the Department of Justice is biased against them.

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Residential school survivors and legal advocates are demanding the federal government call a public inquiry to investigate their claims that survivors’ records are being withheld and the Department of Justice is biased against them. At a meeting of the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples on Tuesday, Fay K. Brunning…

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Manitoba promises review after trustee’s comments about residential schools

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A school trustee’s comments about Indigenous people and residential schools have led to condemnation from many quarters and a review by the Manitoba government. Paul Coffey, a trustee in the Mountain View School Division in western Manitoba, told a school board meeting Monday that residential schools started as a good thing…

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Phil Fontaine’s 1990 account of physical and sexual abuse at residential school

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Fontaine’s tell-all interview from 1990 of abuse at a church-run residential school. Aired on CBC’s The Journal on Oct. 30, 1990. Warning: This video contains distressing details. About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forced to attend the government-funded residential schools from the 19th century to 1996, when the last one closed. They […]

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Ahousaht First Nation to release findings from search for missing residential school children

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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 […]

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