A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
GRAPHIC WARNING: This article contains details readers may find disturbing. An organization investigating unmarked graves near a residential school in eastern Alberta says it has uncovered “physical and documented evidence of a genocide.” The Acimowin Opaspiw Society (AOS) released details of its preliminary report Tuesday into “missing children and unmarked burials” at the former site of […]
The Ontario government is providing financial relief for Indigenous peoples and communities by permanently waiving fees for death records and delayed registration of death for children who attended Indian Residential Schools. The province is also permanently eliminating fees for reclaiming a traditional Indigenous name…
Canadian residential schools have once again found themselves in Hollywood, this time as a focal documentary at the Sundance Film Festival premiere on Jan. 20 in Park City, Utah. Filmmakers and journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen) and Emily Kassie created an investigative documentary…
The Winnebago Tribe is suing the federal government to recover the remains of two children who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, one of the most infamous legacies of a genocidal era in U.S. history. A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses the U.S. Army of failing to follow the Native American Graves Protection…
