by Jeff Gammage, Staff Writer @JeffGammage | jgammage@phillynews.com CARLISLE, Pa. — Nelson White Eagle, gray and stiff at 78, needed time to make his way across the wet grass to the graves of the children, but when he got there, […]
It’s official, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will formally apologize to residential school survivors from Newfoundland and Labrador. The move brings survivors one step closer to finally having their stories acknowledged. Steven Cooper represented the school survivors in […]
August 14, 2017 Hunger experienced by those growing up in residential schools has been linked to health problems in adult survivors, new research shows
Sagkeeng Oldtimers team started in 1978 and competed around the world CBC News Posted: Aug 08, 2017 10:00 AM CT Last Updated: Aug 08, 2017 10:00 AM CT The Sagkeeng Oldtimers team in 1993. The team holds titles in the […]
Regina Indian Industrial School Cemetery will become a provincial heritage property REGINA LEADER-POST More from Regina Leader-Post Published on: July 25, 2017 | Last Updated: July 25, 2017 8:19 AM CST Janine Windolph, president of the Regina Indian Industrial School […]
Thousands of Indigenous kids were taken from their homes to be assimilated. This is Geraldine’s story. Posted on July 21, 2017, at 11:18 a.m. Colin Graf BuzzFeed Contributor Geraldine Robertson, right, in 1946. The young girl smiles broadly in the […]
The committee had extended the invite after Beyak’s comments defending residential schools CBC News Posted: Jul 19, 2017 12:21 PM ET Senator Lynn Beyak met with community leaders and residential school survivors in Sioux Lookout, Ont., on July 11 to […]
‘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 – […]
The original language of Michigan is dying in the state. Anishinaabemowin was the language of the Great Lakes for millennia—spoken by the Chippewa/Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi tribes—known as the Anishinabek. One of the biggest impacts on the language, that affected […]
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.
