A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier delivered a solemn apology Friday to residential school survivors in southern Labrador, nearly six years after it was first promised. Andrew Furey’s apology to the NunatuKavut Community Council in a small gymnasium in Cartwright, N.L., was met with a standing ovation from…
Our thoughts are with Carcross/Tagish First Nation as leadership announces their most recent findings at the site of the former Chooutla Indian Residential School. NAN stands in solidarity with the community as they continue this important work. Truth and understanding are crucial to obtaining justice, and we need to maintain awareness…
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 […]
Algoma University opened its campus to the public Friday to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day that’s been set aside each year to honour residential school survivors, their families and those who never made it home from those institutions, which were explicitly designed to strip…
