ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION – The release of the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and its recommendations are welcomed by Alderville First Nation Chief Jim Bob Marsden – and hit very close to home. In fact, the “first […]
By Kathleen Martens APTN Investigates WINNIPEG – A veteran lawyer was found guilty of professional misconduct Tuesday for failing to properly represent a residential school survivor. Moses Okimaw was handed a reprimand and ordered to pay $3,000 towards the Law […]
The Alberni Residential School operated from 1900 to 1973 in Port Alberni, BC. In 1995 a supervisor who worked at the school from 1948 to 1968 was convicted of 18 counts of indecent assault against Aboriginal students. He was sentenced […]
Author Daniella Zalcman Daniella Zalcman’s project, Signs of Your Identity, explores the legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, which began operation in the late 1800s. Attendance at the schools was mandatory, and agents would regularly visit reserves to take children […]
SERC Manitoba helps deconstruct forced identities, including those from residential schools, from sexuality CBC News Posted: Feb 13, 2016 10:49 AM A seminar in Winnipeg on Friday focused on decolonizing spirituality and sexuality as modern indigenous people. It was put on […]
Truth and Reconciliation Commision will release summary of its final report next week CBC News Posted: Feb 13, 2016 2:02 PM ET Survivors of residential schools gathered in Sudbury on Friday to mark the beginning of the closing ceremonies for Canada’s Truth […]
His mother and grandparents were residential school survivors; his father was often absent; he felt the sting of racism in school and on the streets; he scrounged in garbage cans as a youngster for food; he lived with violence and abuse […]
Mary Black will not be silent anymore. Black was sexually assaulted at the age of 12 by five boys on her reserve. She continues to live with those scars today but she refuses to be quiet. “This silence is so […]
What is “cultural genocide” and why does it matter? This powerful label was first adopted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) last June. It was meant to describe a colonial assimilationist policy, aimed at extinguishing Canada’s indigenous peoples “as […]
By: Michael Crabb Dance, Published on Tue Feb 09 2016 Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Choreography by Mark Godden. At the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Feb. 5 and 6. Early in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star there’s […]
Jorge Barrera APTN National News A residential school survivor was denied compensation for a rape she suffered as a 7-year-old child after federal government lawyers successfully argued the place of the attack did not qualify as a residential school because […]
The head of Canada’s largest indigenous organization says the government acted counter to its own apology for the treatment of children at Indian residential schools when it used a technical argument to deny compensation to many of those who were […]
“The worst ones were when serious abuse happened literally feet from the property line” SARAH ROGERS Inuit children from the western Arctic gather outside a residential school in this undated file photo. A dozen or so former students from […]
Residential schools report, First Nations leaders mislead on problems plaguing reserves The residential school story is now well-known to Canadians. It is accepted wisdom that residential schools were created to strip aboriginal children of their culture. Some of the […]
Thomas King and his publisher appear to have made a significant numerical mistake in his award-winning book, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Penguin Random House Canada). A reader has pointed out that King’s […]
Lost Innocence, a comic book dealing with the Indian residential school system, took author Brandon Mitchell two and a half years to write because of the difficulty of its subject matter. Photo Credit: Saskia Rowley / Anglican Journal Related Categories: Canada, indigenous […]
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.
