To honour and support the Closing Events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), May 31 – June 3, 2015 in Ottawa, we have compiled a list of six books on residential schools and another four that provide […]
Residential school demolition ceremony gives former residents a chance to heal. By Katie Hyslop, 18 Feb 2015, TheTyee.ca For Residential School Kids, a Legacy of Sex Abuse Native leaders hope Truth and Reconciliation hearings will break the cycle of violence. To […]
Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus says names of perpetrators, witnesses have been concealed CBC News Posted: Sep 08, 2014 8:09 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 09, 2014 9:36 AM ET Edmund Metatawabin, a survivor of St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort […]
Requests for mandatory documents overwhelm hospitals, leave survivors in limbo By Martha Troian, CBC News Posted: Jun 09, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 09, 2014 12:19 PM ET Many former Indian residential school survivors have been unable to proceed with claims because […]
Rebecca Belmore Apparition (production still) 2013 Video Courtesy the artist / photo Leif Norman Cathy Busby WE ARE SORRY 2013 2013 Installation view at UBC Walter C. Koerner Library Vinyl billboard Courtesy the artist / photo Michael R. Barrick Luis Camnitzer The […]
Group expected to arrive in Edmonton on Thursday CBC News Posted: Mar 23, 2014 4:56 PM MT Last Updated: Mar 24, 2014 10:11 AM MT Brad Langendoen is one of a small group of non-aboriginals who are walking to Edmonton to honour […]
B.C. releases trove of information about aboriginal deaths to Truth and Reconciliation Commission New documents released to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) may shed some light on the number of children in British Columbia who died in residential schools. […]
BATTLEFORD, Sask. – A former supervisor at a northern Saskatchewan residential school is going to jail after being sentenced on convictions for molesting several students in the 1960s. Paul Leroux, who worked at the Beauval Indian Residential School, was sentenced […]
Port Alberni — Survivors of the notorious Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS), supported by family members, packed Maht Mahs gym on Wednesday for a forum on the “Hunger Experiments” conducted at the school in the 1940s and ‘50s. For the […]
Adrian Stimson’s Sick and Tired, part of “Witnesses” at the Belkin Art Gallery, includes windows and an infirmary bed from the Old Sun Residential School in Gleichen, Alberta. The artist and residential school survivor says he hopes using this material assists […]
This award winning documentary reveals Canada’s darkest secret – the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this […]
Port Alberni — Tseshaht First Nation has demanded a public apology from the federal government and a full disclosure of facts surrounding nutritional and medical experiments performed on children at the Alberni Indian Residential School beginning in the late 1940s. […]
The largest class action settlement in Canadian history to date, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) recognized the damage inflicted by the residential schools, and established a multi-billion-dollar fund to help former students in their recovery. Indian Residential Schools […]
CP | By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted: 02/18/2013 10:38 am EST Updated: 04/20/2013 5:12 am EDT TORONTO – At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during […]
By Bev Sellars Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age of […]
Published on Aug 3, 2010 Sleeping Children Awake (SCA) was shot in 1991 and televised in 1992. It was one of the earliest independant, feature length documentaries to be broadcast on the crucial subject of the Residential School System . […]
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.
