Portrait collection brings back residential school memories
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik is a reunion for many of the former students of residential schools.
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‘Residential School is only the beginning, it’s what I became as an adult’
It is a journey of courage for many of the former students of Indian Residential Schools.
‘We’re not defeated people, we’re hurt, we’re in pain, but we’re strong’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has wrapped up its Northern hearings.
Day-school survivors consider class-action suit
APTN National News Day-schoolers were left out of Canada’s reparations to the residential school survivors….
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.
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
Canada finally backs UN Indigenous declaration
The Canadian government said Friday it had endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.