Stories of abuse, shame amid tears during Yukon TRC hearing
For 12 hours, survivors from the Lower Post Residential School told their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation hearings held last week in Watson Lake, Yukon.
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Day-school survivors consider class-action suit
APTN National News Day-schoolers were left out of Canada’s reparations to the residential school survivors….
Day school survivors still waiting for justice
Residential day school survivors continue their attempt to have their class action lawsuit certified.
Residential school apology rare ‘consensus’ moment during centralized, secretive Harper minority rule: U.S. diplomatic cable
When an “instinctively combative” Stephen Harper reached across party lines to deliver the historic apology to Indian residential school survivors, it marked a rare moment when he attempted “consensus” during a centralized and secretive minority rule, according to a blunt assessment contained in a “secret” U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by APTN National News.
The long road to bring Charlie home
A family has been fighting with the federal government for decades to have their son returned home.
TRC faces travel cost questions
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s second national event is approaching. The week-long gathering is taking place this June in Inuvik, NWT. Over 1,000 residential school survivors and their families are expected to attend.
Man living in tent fears drop-in centre closure
A Yukon First Nations man has been living in a tent for the last six months in Whitehorse.
Survivors centre fighting for survival
The Committee on Abuse in Residential Schools, or CAIRS, runs a drop-in centre in Whitehorse for residential school survivors. After funding from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation ended last year, it is now fighting to keep it’s doors open.
Residential schools ruptured ‘the mother-child bond’
Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Marie Wilson talks to APTN National News about the experiences of young women forced to attend residential schools