Remembering lost children
Representatives from Aboriginal communities in central Alberta gathered together to honour the dead children from a residential school that closed its doors over 60 years ago.
Indian Residential Schools
Criminal charges against Indian residential school abusers should still be option: agency
To the North now where the eyes of the world are on Inuvik.
Holocaust survivor forms bonds with Indian residential school survivors
Forgiving traumatic events in the past has allowed one man to move on in life.
Traditional teachings path to saving families: Mohawk elder
A Mohawk elder is hoping to change an alarming statistic for First Nation children.
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.
One day, one song at a time with dark memories
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was in Yellowknife Thursday.
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.
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