First Nation children still forced off-reserve to get education
Leaving home for a better education is not uncommon.
What is uncommon is when kids as young as thirteen have to do it.
Leaving home for a better education is not uncommon.
What is uncommon is when kids as young as thirteen have to do it.
John Milloy continued his testimony at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nation child funding.
About a hundred people took part in a protest in Battleford, Sask., this week.
The human rights case against the federal government resumed this week with a history lesson on Indian Residential Schools.
Whether Metis, First Nation, or Inuit–our peoples struggle with addictions.
The causes are well known: Residential schools, intergenerational trauma and racism all play a part.
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples called on the Harper government to reverse course on three major fronts in order to avoid a “rocky road” in its relationship with the country’s First Nation population.
Yellowknife residents and former residential school survivors marched through the territorial capital’s downtown.
Survivor statements are at the heart of the TRC event.
One of the mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to educate Canadians about the history and legacy of residential schools.