‘There is consensus on this issue and the fact that it is a dark chapter of our history that we need to own,’ said Ray Pennings of the think tank Cardus First Nations children at St. Mary’s Residential School.File Graeme […]
Assiniboia Indian Residential School operated in the River Heights neighbourhood from 1958-72 CBC News Posted: Jun 23, 2017 6:58 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 23, 2017 6:58 PM ET Jane (McCallum) Glennon waits to take a tour of the former […]
Supreme Court hears diverse opinions on documents from Independent Assessment Process By Jason Warick, CBC News Posted: May 26, 2017 5:00 AM CT Last Updated: May 26, 2017 6:48 AM CT Residential school survivors must be consulted further about their records […]
This is one of the stories I carried as I read Gary Geddes’s new book, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care John Fox, shown here in his 60s, spent months alone each year at his […]
The courts say it is up to the survivors to decide what happens to the accounts of their experiences. But a coalition representing the survivors’ children and grandchildren wants to save the stories. Artist and founder of the Coalition to […]
For over 100 years, about 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their homes and placed in boarding schools designed to assimilate them into Canadian settler society. The goal was — explicitly — to “kill the Indian in the child.” How to watch […]
‘I wanted to tell my story through the pole,’ says B.C. artist Charles Joseph, who attended residential school By Stephanie Cram, CBC News Posted: May 04, 2017 3:55 PM ET Last Updated: May 04, 2017 3:55 PM ET A totem pole […]
We are the Coalition for the Preservation of Truth, whose members are representatives of both residential school survivors and intergenerational residential school survivors. The coalition is formed to advocate for the preservation of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement – […]
Residential school survivors found salvation on and off the ice at south Winnipeg Catholic school in the ’60s By: Randy Turner Posted: 04/28/2017 12:51 PM George Kakeway remembers he was wearing “raggedy old pants” and a summer jacket when his […]
DOUGLAS TODD More from Douglas Todd Published on: April 21, 2017 | Last Updated: April 21, 2017 4:55 PM PDT B.C. Chief Robert Joseph struggled for year after emerging from the residential school system, but he insists on viewing that […]
By Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:26:53 EDT AM Marie Strapp, 90, of Grand Bend, looks at a photo she took of Geraldine Robertson at the former Mount Elgin Indian Industrial School in Muncey, Ont. Strapp, who […]
My name is Danielle Lanouette, but I go by Dani. I’m an Anishinaabe woman living in Ottawa, Ontario. I’m writing to you, not as anyone affiliated with a political organization, but as the granddaughter of a residential school survivor. The […]
Residential school student Marieyvonne Alaka died and was buried in Quebec By Jane Sponagle, CBC News Posted: Jul 17, 2016 5:45 AM CT Last Updated: Jul 18, 2016 7:42 AM CT In the only photo Marieyvonne Alaka’s family has of her, […]
This special edition of The Current is a public forum held at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., across the river from Parliament Hill. The forum explored the work of the national inquiry into MMIWG and connected that […]
The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:41PM EDT OTTAWA – Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared “some good” came out of Canada’s residential schools, has been removed from the Senate’s committee on aboriginal peoples. A spokesperson for […]
KEVIN GRIFFIN More from Kevin Griffin Published on: March 31, 2017 | Last Updated: March 31, 2017 3:42 PM PDT Jim Hart with the Reconciliation Pole at UBC. ARLEN REDEKOP / PNG SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTPRINT One of the most distinctive parts of Reconciliation Pole are the copper […]
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.
