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It's been nearly three years since Pope Francis travelled to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. But for some Indigenous survivors, memories of the historic ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools unveiled proposed maps that would change the district’s residential boundaries for the first time in 30 years.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools plans to release the first round of proposed new residential school boundary maps for community review. WS/FCS residential school boundaries have remained ...
The fight against residential school denialism in Canada. Rejecting the full history of the institutions and the harms Indigenous children faced is a form of hate, survivors say.
Residential school denialism incites hate, full stop. It retraumatizes survivors of residential school violence and undermines steps towards healing and reconciliation.
OTTAWA — Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated ...
More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996. An estimated 6,000 children died in the facilities.
Indian Residential School Memorial Monument, a stark black-and-orange pillar covered with 130 individually hand-carved unsmiling faces created by master carver Stanley Hunt, was inaugurated in ...
A vigil takes place where ground-penetrating radar recorded hits of what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves near the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess ...
Archives are a complex web of information and context. Kim Lawson, an Indigenous archivist and seasoned librarian at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), spends a lot of ...
Over 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children attended Indian residential schools, and although the official records are incomplete, it is estimated that thousands of children died at ...
The accounts residential school survivors and their families share are sacred. Those who listen to them all carry responsibilities. Once you have been told, you know.