Tag: first nations
Canada slowly acknowledging there never was a ‘mass grave’ | National Post
There was much that was dark about residential schools, but no graves…
Radar search finds more than 2,000 anomalies at Saskatchewan residential school site
A child’s jawbone fragment was also found. But more work is needed…
What does reconciliation actually mean? We asked 8 young Indigenous leaders
From calls to action to sovereignty and self-determination, young Indigenous leaders weigh…
Burial sites found at 53 Native American boarding schools, U.S. government says
A U.S. government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding…
How the Navajo Nation Beat Back Covid
The community once the hardest hit is now one of the safest…
Nunavut is writing the biggest land use plan in the world | The Narwhal
Nunavut’s plan would cover 21 per cent of Canada’s land mass and…
Williams Lake mayor criticized for sharing ‘other side of the story’ on residential schools – Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake First Nation requests formal response by Nov. 1 Source: Williams…
Beaten for speaking Blackfoot at residential school, this Siksika woman now teaches it in the same building | CBC Radio
Vivian Ayoungman was forced to attend Old Sun Indian Residential School in the 1950s, where she was beaten for speaking her own language. Decades later, the building has been repurposed as a community college to preserve Siksika language and culture.
Source: Beaten for speaking Blackfoot at residential school, this Siksika woman now teaches it in the same building | CBC Radio
Catholic Church apologises for century of abuses in Canada’s residential schools
The Catholic Church apologized “unequivocally” on Friday to Canada’s indigenous peoples for…
Bodies of Paiute children believed to be buried at site of former Utah Indigenous boarding school
The bodies of several Paiute children are likely buried below the summer…
Indigenous Americans call for justice over residential schools
The schools aimed to aggressively assimilate children to non-native culture. Source: Indigenous…
Their children vanished at an Indigenous boarding school. This tribe is bringing them home after 140 years – CNN
Rose Long Face was 18 years old when she was taken to…
UN calls for investigations after mass graves discovered at former residential schools
On 27 May, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C.,…
‘They need to be charged’: Federal minister on residential school perpetrators
Canada’s minister of northern affairs says the religious leaders who operated the…
Sticky orange coating on a 6,000-year-old Yukon dart came from a beaver’s anal sac
As alpine ice melts, hundreds of ancient artifacts have been recovered from…
Residential schools: A day of remembrance is not enough for a century of forgetting
Trudeau has decided there will be a national holiday to remember the…
This doctor tried to raise alarms about residential schools 100 years ago but was ignored
Dr. Peter H. Bryce tried to sound the alarm on residential schools…
Indigenous fisheries won’t have long-term impact on lobster conservation, biologist says
“That’s really the role of science – do decide what is true…
