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Cooking for Reconciliation Pop-up Restaurant Vancouver

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On February 15, 2017

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 […]

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American Indian Film Festival Coming to Richmond

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On February 6, 2017

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 […]

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Canada / News / Residential School / Survivors

Doctors, nurses ‘bring a lot of biases’ to work with Indigenous patients, study finds

Mel Cook Crate Posted On February 6, 2017

Study looked at health care experiences of Indigenous people with diabetes in Canada Jody Porter · CBC News5 Hours Ago Steven Chapman conducts his own dialysis in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation in northern Ontario. New research shows Indigenous people in Canada […]

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Canada / Claims / News / Residential School / Settlement / Survivors / Trending

Review finds fewer than 200 residential-school settlement claims affected by ‘administrative split’

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On February 4, 2017

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 […]

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Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency – new Master of Social Work program launched at University of Toronto

Mel Cook Crate Posted On February 3, 2017

Social worker Lisa Charleson works with families struggling with addiction, domestic violence – even suicide – and much of that pain can be traced back to the residential school system, she says. When Charleson, who is Nuu-chah-nulth from Vancouver Island’s west coast, […]

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Healing / Inspirational / News / Trending / Video / Youth

“THE HIGHWAY” // Kitsumkalum First Nation, BC

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On January 29, 2017

‘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 […]

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Canada / News / Politics / Residential School / Trending

Indigenous leaders give Trudeau government failing grade on delivering promises

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 26, 2017

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and the Liberal government have committed to supporting Indigenous child welfare services but many say there’s little progress. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Listen 19:45 It’s been one year since the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s historic […]

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Forgotten: Exhibit on Métis experience of residential schools important recognition, survivor says

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On January 23, 2017

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 […]

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Exclusive: The Reconciliation

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 22, 2017

It took a while to sit down again, after purging my story…… It was the sudden and tragic death of a younger male cousin that brought me out of a fog. The fog I wandered through for a while […]

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Clouds of Autumn (2015) | A film by Trevor Mack & Matthew Taylor Blais

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On January 21, 2017

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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Abuse / Canada / News / Residential School / Survivors / Trending / Truth

Anglican Church will issue apology to victims of former minister

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 20, 2017

Former Anglican minister Ralph Rowe was convicted of sexually abusing boys in northern Ontario during the 1970s and 80s. The Anglican Church has, until now, never issued a formal apology. (THE SURREY-NORTH DELTA LEADER) By TANYA TALAGAStaff Reporter Fri., Jan. 20, […]

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Books / Canada / News / Residential School / Trending

New book aims to teach children about painful history of residential schools

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 13, 2017

Author David A. Robertson says starting the conversation early is not only appropriate, but necessary By Holly Caruk, CBC News Posted: Jan 13, 2017 5:00 AM CT Last Updated: Jan 13, 2017 5:00 AM CT Author David A. Robertson says he was inspired to […]

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Canada / Healing / News / Residential School / Story / Trending

Faces of health care

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 12, 2017

Residential school trauma and frustration with the system left Simeonie drinking heavily and homeless for over a decade. He talks about how the 2008 Prime Minister’s apology was a turning point for him, and how a managed alcohol program has made his […]

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Arthur Bear Chief on the devastating experience of being a residential school student

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On January 6, 2017

At 74, Arthur Bear Chief is bringing his pain to the page. In his book My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell, Bear Chief chronicles his time in residential school, writing candidly about the sexual abuse he suffered and […]

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Reconciliation at heart of move to rename Neill Elementary School

Mel Cook Crate Posted On January 6, 2017

January 5, 2017 · 3:09 PM The Alberni Valley School District is considering a name change for AW Neill Elementary School. / ELENA RARDON/ALBERNIVALLEYNEWS A proposal to change the name of an elementary school in Port Alberni has turned into a larger […]

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Christmas village brings joy to family

Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On December 22, 2016

Each piece tells a story Thursday, Dec 22, 2016 06:00 am By: Tammy Marlowe Johnson Richard Whitford poses in front of his Christmas village. Ryan Wellicome A Cochrane couple’s teeny-tiny Christmas village is bringing heaps of holiday cheer to all […]

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