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A decade after payouts began, residential school survivors still await settlements
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 18, 2017


To date, more than 38,000 people have applied for compensation and $3.1 billion has been paid out. And it could take several more years to wrap up On Oct. 7, 2007, Mary Moonias of Louis Bull First Nation, became the […]


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Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in Manitoba residential school case
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 17, 2017


The Canadian Press Published Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:01AM EDT OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal in a case about whether a Manitoba institution should be considered a residential school. Two lower courts said […]


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Army begins unearthing remains of children who died at Carlisle Indian school
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 16, 2017


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, […]


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Steven Cooper Gives Insight into Formally Apologize for Residential School Survivors | APTN News
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 15, 2017


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 […]


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Hunger experienced in residential schools linked to present-day health problems
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 15, 2017


August 14, 2017 Hunger experienced by those growing up in residential schools has been linked to health problems in adult survivors, new research shows    


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Team made up of residential school survivors recognized by Hockey Hall of Fame
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On August 10, 2017


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 […]


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Regina Indian Industrial School Cemetery will become a provincial heritage property
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On July 28, 2017


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 […]


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This Residential School Survivor And Worker Reunited 70 Years Later
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On July 22, 2017


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 […]


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Senator Lynn Beyak meets with Sioux Lookout reconciliation committee
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On July 19, 2017


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 […]


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Residential schools seen as ‘major black mark’ in Canadian religious history: poll
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On June 29, 2017


‘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 […]


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Survivors hold reunion at little-known Winnipeg residential school
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On June 23, 2017


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 […]


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Residential school survivors should decide fate of documents: FSIN
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 26, 2017


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 […]


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An ailing boy, a residential school infirmary and a father’s clandestine rescue mission
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 25, 2017


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 […]


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Supreme Court to decide who owns the 38,000 stories of residential school survivors
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 25, 2017


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 […]


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How Stanley Redcrow and First Nations activists reclaimed the Blue Quills Residential School
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 11, 2017


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 […]


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West Coast totem pole on busy Montreal street a reminder of Canada’s residential schools
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 5, 2017


‘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 […]


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