‘I used to look at the stars and think, my mom and dad are seeing the same stars’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission tasked with gathering testimony from survivors of residential schools has completed their second national event.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission tasked with gathering testimony from survivors of residential schools has completed their second national event.
Healing through laughter is one way to life the heaviness of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
Up to 1,000 residential school survivors along with government and church leaders gathered in Inuvik last week for the second national gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It’s estimated that 150,000 students passed through Canada’s Indian Residential School system. One-third of them, never made it home.
Representatives from Aboriginal communities in central Alberta gathered together to honour the dead children from a residential school that closed its doors over 60 years ago.
To the North now where the eyes of the world are on Inuvik.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik is a reunion for many of the former students of residential schools.
Forgiving traumatic events in the past has allowed one man to move on in life.
The haunting drumming of the Dene opened the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik, NWT, Tuesday.