Peter Bryce visited 35 residential schools on the Prairies while writing his report. One of his findings was inadequate sanitation and hygiene. (Peter Campbell) Finding Heart tells how a medical inspector linked conditions in schools to a tuberculosis outbreak […]
This is the second part of our series on Uashat and Maliotenam, sister Innu communities near Sept-Îles where five people took their lives in the span of nine months last year. Despite great pain, residents invited three Montreal Gazette journalists last December. They wanted […]
The Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief Luther Standing Bear was among a few rare others that occupied the rift that was between the ways of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains and the European pioneers. He was raised in the […]
Group has a petition urging more research and preservation of site By John Weidlich, CBC News Posted: Mar 26, 2016 5:30 PM Children’s toys are attached to a fence around a cemetery site where research is taking place to learn more about graves […]
By BRENDAN MEYER brendan.meyer@trib.com DAN CEPEDA/For The Gazette Yufna Soldier Wolf wipes away tears while talking to her grandfather buried in the family graveyard on the Wind River Reservation near Riverton recently. She is seeking the remains of her […]
Nearly 200 children died and are buried at the former Carlisle Indian School. Now the Rosebud Sioux want to reclaim their ancestors. By Jeff Gammage / Staff Writer, jgammage@phillynews.com Sunday, March 13, 2016 CARLISLE, Pa. — They want the bones of […]
N’we Jinan Artists – “HOME TO ME” // Grassy Narrows First NationIntroducing the world to the amazingly talented youth of Grassy Narrows First Nation. Check out their “HOME TO ME” music video that is capturing the hearts and attention of […]
CBC News Posted: Mar 14, 2016 8:45 AM NT Negotiations on an out-of-court settlement for residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador have come to a halt, CBC News has learned. Meetings between lawyers in Toronto during February ended without […]
INTRODUCTION: THE LONELY PLACE This article contains material about suicide that may be disturbing to some readers. UASHAT — The weather had already started to turn when Nadeige Guanish set out for the pines at the edge of town. Part […]
Camosun digital communication instructor Andy Bryce examines a photograph of his great grandfather, Dr. Peter Bryce, one of the first senior officials to raise the alarm about health abuses in Canada’s residential school system. — Image Credit: Ivan Watson Photo […]
CAM FULLER, SASKATOON STARPHOENIX More from Cam Fuller, Saskatoon StarPhoenix Published on: March 9, 2016 | Last Updated: March 9, 2016 1:53 PM CST Royal Winnipeg Ballet is offering free tickets to residential school survivors who wish to […]
By JENNIFER HAMILTON-MCCHARLES, The Nugget Sunday, March 6, 2016 5:14:13 EST PM Blair Beaucage found the answers he needed in the most unexpected place. Now the 27-year-old wants to help kids that are struggling like he was. Beaucage is […]
Law society alleges Louay Alghoul didn’t respond to adjudicator’s emails By Vera-Lynn Kubinec, CBC News Lawyer Louay Alghoul blamed a problem with his firm’s email system for his failure to respond to an adjudicator’s questions sent by email. (CBC) The Law […]
Drake Trudeau (front row, second from right), a Grade 6 student at Assiginack Public School, was honoured by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the Rideau Hall in Ottawa earlier this week. OTTAWA—Assiginack Public School student […]
This article was published in the March 2016 edition of The United Church Observer, and on its website www.ucobserver.org When he was 13 years old, Willie Blackwater stood up to his abuser at a B.C. Indian residential school. His […]
Commission aimed to repair relations between indigenous and non-indigenous people By Martha Troian, CBC News Paul Chartrand was one of the original commissioners of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Photo: Still from Home and Native Land, CBC, 1999. (CBC ) Martha […]
Residential School Magazine. Dealing with all aspects of the residential school experience. Featuring stories from survivors, interviews with prominent First Nations and Native American people, and inspirational essays and narratives. Its general tone is to uplift, aid, and inform readers who have been affected by the residential school system.
