by Kelowna Capital News – Kelowna Capital News Kelowna posted Mar 1, 2017 at 3:00 PM A survivor of Canada’s residential school system and an advocate of First Nations rights will be in Kelowna next week to discuss indigenous rights. Bev Sellars is a former councillor and chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake as well as […]
St’at’imc survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School and their families will embark on a healing journey in March – a four-day walk called Náskan Ūxwal (I’m Going Home) that will take them from the school through St’at’imc territory. The […]
REGINA LEADER-POST Published on: February 27, 2017 | Last Updated: February 27, 2017 4:47 PM CST Joseph (Augie) Merasty (left) and David Carpenter. GORD WALDNER / SASKATOON STARPHOENIX Author and residential school survivor Joseph (Augie) Merasty, 87, died Monday morning in Prince Albert, […]
Native American students face challenges; solutions must involve Native input Ahniwake Rose • February 14, 2017 It’s more than a little upsetting that in more than three hours of testimony before Congress on her nomination to be the new U.S. secretary of […]
A photo showing a boys’ soccer team from Battleford Industrial School is seen here on display at the Western Development Museum. The photo was removed after a complaint from Tammy Robert, a Saskatoon mother. (Tammy Robert) CTV Saskatoon Published […]
ED HILLE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER When native chief Bill Cranmer of the Namgis tribe on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, visited Philadelphia’s American Philosophical Society to research his tribe’s history, he discovered his father’s writing. ED HILLE/Staff Photographer by Jeff Gammage, Staff […]
National News | February 10, 2017 by Tamara Pimentel (This bridge over the Bow River in Calgary is now called the Reconciliation Bridge. The renaming of the bridge inspired a cartoon in the pages of the Calgary Herald. Photo: Tamara Pimentel/APTN) Tamara Pimentel APTN National […]
DESCRIPTION Cooking for Reconciliation is a journey toward Truth and Reconciliation using Indigenous foods to create a better understanding of pre-colonial Indigenous culture and the impact of colonization. Our traditional foods have the ability to nourish and cultivate awareness and […]
Sponsors include Francis Ford Coppola, who may attend inaugural fest at the Byrd in November. POSTED BY BRENT BALDWIN ON FRI, JAN 13, 2017 AT 10:15 AM Director Chris Eyre (“Smoke Signals”) will be one of the major American Indian artists attending the inaugural […]
«AN INVESTIGATION AT THE BRANDON INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL» FREE, everyone welcome! When: Tue, March 14, 2017. 7:00 PM. Where: Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St. The history of conducting western scientific research […]
GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Feb. 02, 2017 8:41PM EST Last updated Thursday, Feb. 02, 2017 10:25PM EST A lengthy review by Ottawa of people abused as children at Canada’s infamous Indian residential schools has found that fewer than […]
‘The Highway’ Music Video Raises Awareness For Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women Students from a B.C. First Nation created a heartbreaking music video about missing and murdered indigenous women. The song called “The Highway” was penned by students at the ‘Na […]
Edmund Metatawabin shares his story of survival with Timmins students Jan 20, 2017 12:00 PM by: Frank Giorno Edmund Metatawabin, author of Up Ghost River and former chief of Fort Albany First Nation, spoke this week to about 100 students and teachers at […]
The crossing in the city’s downtown was named after an architect of the residential school system By Drew Anderson, CBC News Posted: Jan 23, 2017 8:46 PM MT Last Updated: Jan 23, 2017 9:42 PM MT Calgary’s Langevin Bridge, named after one of […]
New exhibit opens at United Way of Winnipeg on Monday By Aidan Geary, CBC News Posted: Jan 23, 2017 5:00 AM CT Last Updated: Jan 23, 2017 5:00 AM CT Andrew Carrier is the minister responsible for Métis Residential Day School Survivors in the […]
A film by Trevor Mack & Matthew Taylor Blais Set on the Tsilhqot’in plateau in the 1970s, Clouds of Autumn focuses on a young Indigenous boy named William and his older sister Shayl whose carefree childhoods are torn apart when […]
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