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.
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"Crown land belongs to the government, not to f*cking natives"
Heavily armed RCMP officers, some clad in full camouflage and wielding assault weapons, moved in early Thursday morning to enforce an injunction against a Mi’kmaq barricade that has trapped exploration vehicles belonging to a Houston-based firm conducting shale gas exploration in New Brunswick.
UN's Anaya calls on Harper government to change course on First Nation education, missing women's inquiry and TRC
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.
Residential schools survivors honoured in Yellowknife march
Yellowknife residents and former residential school survivors marched through the territorial capital’s downtown.
Harper government expected to table First Nation Education Act before year's end
The Harper government is expected to release a draft of the First Nation Education Act in October before tabling a final version of the proposed legislation before the end of the year, according to the regional chief in charge of the education file for the Assembly of First Nations.
First Nation infants subject to "human experimental work" for TB vaccine in 1930s-40s
The nutritional experiments conducted in First Nation communities and in Indian residential schools were not the only example where Canada’s Indigenous population faced treatment as “guinea pigs,” academic research shows.
Federal cabinet confidence prevents release of documents on attempted inclusion of sanatorium as residential school: document
The Harper government has invoked cabinet confidence to prevent the release of documents associated with a pending court application to include a sanatorium under the Indian residential school settlement agreement, a document shows.
Residential school commission received nutritional experiment documents in 2010
The commission created to delve into the dark history of residential schools has been in possession of documents related to nutritional experiments conducted on First Nations people for at least three years, according to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s office.
A grandson reflects on Harper's Indian residential school apology and the day his grandmother revealed her story
It was late fall in 2005 when Alma Jane Bruyere appeared at the door of her grandson’s house in Fort Frances, Ont., carrying in her left hand a lawyer’s letter stating she had qualified for compensation for the abuse she faced while attending an Indian residential school.