TRC now heads East to hear survivor stories
The story of Aboriginal children being forced into residential schools is now being told in Atlantic Canada.
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AFN response to opposition of hobbled blue-ribbon education panel “very disturbing”
The Assembly of First Nations’ response to the wide-spread opposition to a blue-ribbon education panel created by the organization and the federal government is “quite disturbing,” says a Quebec chief who has been a key player on the education file.
Atleo’s leadership questioned as chiefs reject education panel
First Nations chiefs in three provinces have struck a crippling blow against a blue-ribbon panel created by the Assembly of First Nations and Ottawa to study on-reserve education and create a template for new legislation.
‘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.
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.
‘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.