OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs are calling on the federal government to make residential school denialism a criminal offence, arguing Ottawa is allowing harmful misinformation […]
Tag: Residential Schools
Prominent Indigenous Leader Murray Sinclair Passes Away at 73
Murray Sinclair, the Anishinaabe former senator and judge who led Canada’s groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) investigation into the country’s residential school system, has […]
Family Denied Federal Funding to Repatriate Residential School Survivor’s Remains Due to Adult Age at Time of Death
The family of Percy Onabigon, who has been fighting for years to repatriate his remains after he was sent to a residential school in Thunder […]
First Nation and Catholic Church Reach Accord on Residential School Truths
Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and Catholic Church Arms in Vancouver and Kamloops Agree on Residential School Acknowledgment. Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and the Vancouver and Kamloops branches […]
B.C. First Nation Reclassifies 215 Suspected Graves as ‘Anomalies’ Instead of ‘Children’
Three years after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced the discovery of 215 suspected graves of children, the First Nation is now officially referring to these sites […]