The author and journalist, famed for his reflections on the legacy of the residential school system, died Friday at his home in Kamloops, B.C., his family said. Author and journalist Richard Wagamese died Friday afternoon in his home in Kamloops, […]
Theodore Fontaine says the bad far outweighed any good experiences during his 12 years in residential school CBC News Posted: Mar 10, 2017 9:18 AM CT Last Updated: Mar 10, 2017 9:18 AM CT Theodore Fontaine says a conservative senator’s comments about […]
Invitation over Beyak’s remarks that residential school teachers were ‘well-intentioned’ CBC News Posted: Mar 10, 2017 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 10, 2017 11:26 AM ET Garnet Angeconeb is a residential school survivor and long time social justice advocate who received […]
Ms. Beyak, What the hell are you thinking? One white, non-residential school raised, woman of age and experience to another. Seriously. What the hell are you thinking? This CBC news article crossed my feeds this morning. For some time, I thought, I’ll […]
Former head of Truth and Reconciliation Commission ‘shocked’ by Lynn Beyak’s remarks John Paul Tasker · Parliamentary Bureau · CBC News Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak laments that the positive experiences and ‘good deeds’ of administrators at residential schools have been overshadowed […]
Residential school legacy a tough but crucial element of Canadian history, workshop facilitator says By Aidan Geary, CBC News Posted: Mar 05, 2017 5:00 AM CT Last Updated: Mar 05, 2017 5:00 AM CT A group of female students and a nun pose in […]
For almost twenty years Ralph Rowe held a unique esteem in the isolated First Nation Reserves of Northern Ontario. As an Anglican minister and a Boy Scout leader, Rowe was revered and trusted by community elders and cultivated adoration from […]
GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 03, 2017 6:00AM EST The federal government has reached financial agreements with the first of many people who were harmed as children at an Indian residential school but whose claims for compensation […]
Gina Adams sews text from the American Indian Treaties onto quilts, articulating the deception and violence used to marginalize Native Americans in the formation of the United States. Rachel Elizabeth Jones Gina Adams, “Broken Treaty Quilt: Fort Laramie” (1868) (back) […]
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, […]
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 […]
Manitoba lawyer was disbarred after he took nearly $1 million from 55 survivors By Katie Nicholson, Katie Pedersen, CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2017 Residential school survivor Cyril Desjarlais said he was happy to learn his lawyer, who was disbarred for overcharging his […]
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 […]
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