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Residential school survivors meet with archbishops to discuss the Pope’s visit
Members of the National Indian Residential School Survivors Circle met with Catholic Bishops Wednesday in Winnipeg to discuss Pope Francis’
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Native Hawaiians Are Confronting the Legacies of “Indian Boarding Schools”
On May 11, the Department of Interior released a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative investigative report, the first official accounting of the
‘I am ashamed, I am horrified’: Archbishop of Canterbury expresses remorse over church’s role residential schools
There was another apology from the Anglican Church of Canada to residential school survivors over the weekend—but this time it came from the
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Audit needed to find treaty payments that went to schools rather than residential school survivors
A founding member of the Children of Shingwauk residential survivor group and longtime member of the National Indian Residential Schools Survivor
Priest resigns over ‘acknowledged sexual misconduct’
The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous Peoples across Canada online
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The Pope's Fake Apology
I was interested in hearing the Pope's apology to the aboriginal peoples about Catholic involvement in the residential school system. But after I saw
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Canada plans to fight band reparations class action in court
Should Canada have to pay reparations for the destruction of language and culture wrought by Ottawa’s residential school policies? Two B.C.
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Pope Francis apologizes for residential school abuses
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Papal apology ‘an empty gesture’ without reparations and reform: Niigaan Sinclair
Residential school survivors showed courage, resilience and dignity this week as they faced the head of the very institution whose clergy abused
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Métis Nation-Saskatchewan survivors set for meeting with Pope Francis
Survivors of residential schools in Northern Saskatchewan are on their way to Rome for a meeting with the Pope about the Catholic Church’s role
Land and apology on the agenda when AFN delegation meets with Pope next week
The Assembly of First Nations held a pre-Vatican trip news conference Thursday to discuss the issues that will be on hand when its delegation
BATC expands search for lost children in Saskatchewan
The Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) in Saskatchewan says it’s expanding its search for graves connected to the Thunderchild Indian
B.C. nation to search for children who didn’t come home from Alert Bay school
The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering
Keeseekoose First Nation says 54 potential graves at former Saskatchewan residential schools
Keeseekoose First Nation in eastern Saskatchewan says 54 potential graves have been found through ground-penetrating radar at the site of two former
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We failed to hear them when they lived. We are obliged to hear them now.
In Secwepemctsín, the language of the Secwépemc, they’re called le estcwéý. The missing. The ones taken to residential school who never