Exploring Theme: "Commitments to Residential Schools"

By Rick Garrick NationTalk: THUNDER BAY — Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige highlighted her meetings with Indian Residential School Warriors and Survivors to kick-off the Anishinabek Nation’s Indian Residential School Research and Recovery Methodologies Knowledge Exchange gathering. Held Oct. 8-10 at the Best Western Plus NorWester Hotel and Conference Centre in Thunder Bay,...

Communities from Toronto to New York, and now Ingersoll, are wrestling with how to properly acknowledge and preserve these graveyards, commonly known as Potter’s Fields. Toronto Star: When Cody Groat was a kid, he’d ride his bike around a seemingly empty swath of ground in the local cemetery. Townsfolk, too, out for a stroll, would...

NationTalk: (Brantford/Six Nations, ON) – The Woodland Cultural Centre is pleased to announce that the Barry and Laurie Green Family Trust has awarded a grant of $450,000 toward the production of essential finishing elements required to establish the Mohawk Institute as a pinnacle, best in class, nationally significant heritage museum and site of conscience that...

The interim report asks for funding for searches at residential school to be continued until past 2025. Canada announced millions of dollars to assist the search for unmarked graves, and healing Photo: APTN.  This article contains details about residential schools. The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line (1-866-925-4419) is available 24 hours a day for survivors...