A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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…
The story begins in 1620. The Mayflower lands in what’s now New England, as religious wars were tearing Europe apart. Later that same year, another ship leaves the “New World,” bound for France. On it was a young Innu boy. We know his name: Pastedechouan. The fact that we know it is the result of […]
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 […]
