Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75
Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"
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(Filtered by Indigenous Group "First Nations")
October 29, 2024
Special interlocutor releases final residential school graves report
Kimberly Murray issues 42 ‘obligations’, seeks 20-year probe Warning: This report refers to residential schools and may be disturbing for some readers. Help is available by calling the Residential School Survivor Support line at 1-866-925-4419 APTN News: After two years of investigation, Canada’s special interlocutor on residential school gravesites says the work is only beginning....
October 17, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY – Special Interlocutor to Release Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework for Missing and Disappeared Children and Unmarked Burials
NationTalk: GATINEAU, QC, Oct. 16, 2024– The Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, Kimberly R. Murray, will release her Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework at the 7th National Gathering on Unmarked Burials. This event will take place on October 29, 2024, at the Hilton Lac-Leamy...
August 16, 2024
Feds reverse course on funding cap for unmarked grave searches
APTN News: The minister of Crown Indigenous Relations says that the federal government made a “mistake” when it capped money towards searches for unmarked graves at former residential schools across the country. “After engaging with Indigenous leaders and communities, we have heard your concerns loud and clear,” said Minister Gary Anandasangaree in a statement. “Our...
July 3, 2024
The Government of Canada supports the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford
NationTalk: Canadian Heritage – Today, Lisa Hepfner, Member of Parliament (Hamilton Mountain), on behalf of the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced funding of more than $1.4 million for the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford. The funding marks a significant investment in the cultural landscape of the region. It provides support through the...
June 3, 2024
First Nation in B.C. plans dig for remains at ex-school, signs deal with RCMP, province
APTN News: The British Columbia government says the Williams Lake First Nation is planning to excavate the site of a former residential school to recover possible human remains and has signed an agreement with the province and RCMP to help guide the process. The Ministry of Indigenous Relations says the memorandum of understanding is the...
June 3, 2024
Kimberly Murray’s mandate extended into the fall
Canada’s special interlocutor for unmarked graves at former residential schools, Kimberly Murray says the fight is not over to obtain records needed to answer “hard questions,” including who the missing children were, how they died and where they are buried. Murray speaks at a news conference in Ottawa June 8, 2022. Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian...
April 16, 2024
Budget 2024: Addressing the Legacy of Residential Schools
Residential school denialism has severe impacts on Survivors and descendants of Survivors. Such denialism seeks to erase the ongoing trauma and harm that Indigenous Peoples continue to face because of the legacy of residential schools. It further burdens Survivors and their descendants, whose mental health, well-being, and economic opportunities are still hampered today by thisshameful...
June 13, 2023
Ground search begins at former Chooutla school site in Yukon
As many as 42 students may have died at the former school site APTN News: A ground search for potential graves has begun at the former site of the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon. The search, which will take place during various intervals this summer, will help determine if there are possible remains...
May 5, 2023
Details of upcoming work to find graves at residential school site presented in Carcross, Yukon
Ground-penetrating radar work to be done at Chooutla school site starting next month WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: People in the community of Carcross, Yukon, received more details this week about the upcoming work to search for unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school. That work, which will be done...
March 25, 2023
Search for graves at Yukon residential school site planned for this summer
‘We will finally get some answers to questions that we’ve had in our families,’ says chair of working group WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. CBC News: The first ground search for unmarked graves at a former Yukon residential school will start this summer in Carcross. At least 20 Indigenous children...
February 17, 2023
International Commission on Missing Persons to undertake outreach and engagement sessions with Indigenous communities on unmarked burial sites
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Taking care: We recognize this news release may contain information that is difficult for many and that our efforts to honour Survivors and families may act as an unwelcome reminder for those who have suffered hardships through generations of government policies that were harmful to Indigenous Peoples. The National...
February 7, 2023
Ottawa spending $2-million for international commission to offer advice on unmarked graves
The Globe and Mail: Ottawa is spending $2 million for an international organization to provide Indigenous communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former residential school sites. The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said in a statement Tuesday it is signing a technical agreement with the International Commission on Missing...
October 21, 2022
First Nations, governments sign memorandum of understanding for Bringing Our Children Home initiative
Initiative searching for missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School CBC: An initiative aimed at locating missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School took a step forward this week, with First Nations and government signing a memorandum of understanding in Thunder Bay, Ont. The Bikiiwewinig Nindawaashishiiminaanak Initiative, or Bringing Our Children...
July 20, 2022
Government of Canada and NCTR announce National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
Ottawa, ON — Unceded Traditional Territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation – Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children never returned home from residential schools. Many were buried in gravesites that are unrecorded, unmarked and unprotected. Today, the Honourable Marc...
June 8, 2022
Kimberly Murray appointed Special Interlocutor
CBC: Kimberly Murray, a Mohawk woman originally from Kanehsatake in Quebec, has been appointed special interlocutor to co-ordinate the government’s response to the unmarked graves that have been identified at a number of former residential school sites. Murray comes to the job with experience with this sort of work because, for the last year, she has...
June 6, 2022
Sagkeeng First Nation update
CBC: Sagkeeng First Nation’s search of former residential school site uncovers 190 radar anomalies The search of a former Manitoba residential school site has unearthed what the chief of the First Nation describes as “anomalies” that could be unmarked burial sites, though the true nature of those anomalies remains unclear. During the search, ground-penetrating radar used...
May 18, 2022
Stólō Tribal Council
St. Mary’s Residential School, All Hallows and Coqualeetza: $1,077,520 2021-24 Chemainus Valley Courier: Interviews of survivors of St. Mary’s Residential School is being undertaken by the Stólō Tribal Council, and Stólō Nation leadership has said it plans to execute ground searches at St. Mary’s and Coqualeetza, as well as the researching all historical files related...
May 17, 2022
Govt of Canada update on actions to help Indigenous communities to respond to and heal from impacts of residential schools
Crown and Indigenous Services Canada and Northern Affairs Canada : On May 16: the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services; the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage; the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of...
May 4, 2022
Sagkeeng First Nation
Fort Alexander IRS: $610,093 Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Sagkeeng First Nation has undertaken work related to Fort Alexander (Pine Falls) Residential School and the search for possible burial sites located on the land. The community-led initiative has involved knowledge gathering from Elders. Field investigation work on areas related to the school site location...
April 27, 2022
Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Funding Recipients
Government of Canada: The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support funding launched in June 2021 to support Indigenous communities to locate missing children at Indian Residential Schools as identified in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Funding is provided under the following components: National results: For full details on all 70 funding arrangement The list...
April 20, 2022
Sipekne’katik First Nation
Shubenacadie Residential School: $326,700 CIRNAC:The funding supports the “Shubenacadie Residential School Support Project for Sipekne’katik.” This funding will assist with the research, knowledge gathering, commemoration, memorialization and fieldwork that will be undertaken by the First Nation on the grounds surrounding the former Shubenacadie residential school. Sipekne’katik First Nation has already begun the difficult work. The...
March 29, 2022
Williams Lake First Nation
St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School: $2.9M Mar. 29, 2022: CTV News – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $2.9M in funding to “continue supporting healing” for members of First Nations communities impacted by the treatment children received while attending a local residential school....
February 18, 2022
The Nisoonag (Three Canoes) Partnership
Spanish Indian Residential School $699,574 + $900K from Ontario for 2021-2024 The Nisoonag (Three Canoes) Partnership is an alliance between Mississauga First Nation (MFN), Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation (SFN), and Serpent River First Nation (SRFN) formed to investigate the former Spanish Indian Residential School (IRS) site for unmarked children’s graves...
February 7, 2022
Grassy Narrows First Nation
TBNewswatch.com – $157,000 funding to research gravesites at the former McIntosh Residential School in Northwestern Ontario. The school, founded by Roman Catholic missionaries, was located 30 kilometres northwest of Vermilion Bay. It operated from 1925 to 1969. “We will take steps to commemorate and memorialize the children that died while attending McIntosh Residential School so that they will always...
January 27, 2022
Garden River First Nation
Jan. 27, 2022: $1,485,770 for the “The Garden River First Nations Survivor Fund” is undertaking work related to burial sites associated with Wawanosh Home for Girls, on research and knowledge gathering with Survivors, their families and Knowledge Keepers for commemoration and memorialization projects, and will document and video tape fieldwork investigations using global positioning technology....
January 24, 2022
Six Nations of the Grand River
$10,259,9753 in funding over three years The Survivors’ Secretariat at Six Nations of the Grand River and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, announced funding through the Residential Schools Missing Children – Community Support Funding program to assist with this important work.The Survivors’ Secretariat will coordinate with Survivors and engage with communities to locate, document, map, maintain...
January 17, 2022
Kamloops Residential School
Jan. 17, 2022: CBC – The leadership of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc hopes to identify and locate missing children believed to be buried in unmarked graves. The federal government plans to transfer more than 875,000 records through a recently signed agreement with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the archival repository for all of the material collected by the...
January 7, 2022
Williams Lake First Nation
CIRNA – $1,912,460 Williams Lake First Nation will undertake work related to burial sites associated with the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The community is currently completing a preliminary investigation that includes interviews with former students and their families, an initial geophysical survey, and the compilation of archival and photographic records related to the disappearances and...
December 16, 2021
Lac Seul First Nation
Sioux Lookout Bulletin – $1M funding for Lac Seul First Nation who will engage with 33 affiliated northern Ontario communities to establish cultural and spiritual protocols in working with Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders to address the location, documentation, mapping, maintenance and commemoration/memorialization of burial sites associated with the former Pelican Lake Indian...
December 15, 2021
Cowassess First Nation
$703,230 funding over three years for the community’s Gravesite Reclamation Project. Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders will continue the work that has already started on researching, commemorating, locating and identifying the gravesites of missing children. During the next three years, work will progress on research, archival and statement gathering, additional fieldwork, commemorative markers,...
June 22, 2021
Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations
Saskatchewan Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations = $4.88M (16 Indian Residential Schools) Research, knowledge gathering and the initial ceremonies related to the burial sites of children who never returned from residential schools to their Indigenous communities. The funding will also help communities gather the information necessary to guide appropriate ground penetrating radar work....
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