Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75
Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Northwest Territories"
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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 26, 2022
GNWT releases report on history of NWT education facilities including residential schools, day schools and residences
To support the work of reconciliation and healing within Indigenous communities, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has released a report that provides a summary of educational facilities, including residential schools, day schools and residences, in the Northwest Territories (NWT) from 1862 to 2021. Sorting information by community, the Report on the History of NWT...
July 12, 2021
Sacred Heart Residential School
APTN – Fort Providence used ground-penetrating radar in ’90s to locate cemetery containing 300 bodies, of which 161 were kids who attended Sacred Heart Residential School in Zhahti Kue, also known as Fort Providence, N.W.T....
June 6, 2021
Commitment to work with Indigenous leaders about what happened at the 14 schools
CBC – The territorial government says it is willing to work with Indigenous leaders to get to the truth about what may lie underground in the territory’s many former residential school locations. In the Northwest Territories there were 14 residential schools, run by church or state. In some communities, work has already been done to understand the...
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