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Mixed emotion as Government of Canada settles with Île-à-la-Crosse Boarding School Survivors
March 3, 2025 – Treaty Ten Territory and Heartland of the Métis, Île-à-la-Crosse, SK – After two decades of calling for proper recognition of the abuse suffered by thousands of Métis and First Nations youth who attended the Île-à-la-Crosse Boarding School (ILEX), an Agreement in Principle has been reached between the ILEX Survivors’ Committee and […]
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BCAFN Condemns MLA Dallas Brodie’s Stance Challenging the Presence of Unmarked Graves at Former Residential Schools
February 27, 2025 (Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) – The BC Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), Regional Chief Terry Teegee and board member Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir condemn BC Conservative MLA Dallas Brodie’s support to change the language in BC Law Society’s training material to refer to “potential” burial sites at the former […]
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Pink Shirt Day & Denialism
February 26, 2025 On behalf of Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc (TteS) many of us are wearing pink to stand up for our commitment to choose kindness and remind everyone of our shared responsibility to treat one another with compassion, understanding, and respect. We have all seen and experienced bullying in workplaces, on social media, and within […]
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Williams Lake First Nation Calls on Canada to Support Revitalization of Former Residential School Site
Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) commenced the investigation into the disappeared and deceased Indigenous children at the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School (“SJM”) in July of 2021. Now, nearly four years into that investigation, WLFN has completed survivor interviews, archival research, community engagement and the geophysical investigation of more than 470 acres of property […]
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First Nation urges respectful return of residential school children – Cabin Radio
February 27, 2025 The Deninu Kųę́ First Nation says the NWT government is impeding its efforts to repatriate children who never returned home from residential school. In a letter to Premier RJ Simpson that was shared online last week, Chief Louis Balsillie said the territorial government was improperly applying the NWT’s Archaeological Sites Act to residential […]
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‘Cut us at the knees’: Survivor-led group searching Brantford residential school grounds says it was denied federal funding – The Spec
February 25, 2025 Survivors’ Secretariat lead says group expects to be out of money by the end of February. A group searching the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute says it will be out of money by the end of the month after being denied long-awaited federal funding. Lead Laura Arndt said she was told […]
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Ottawa ends funding for national advisory committee on unmarked residential school graves – CBC
Feb 16, 2025 Committee will have to cease operations when current agreement expires on March 31 An expert committee formed to help Indigenous communities find unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada says the federal government has discontinued its funding. “It’s a betrayal,” said founding member Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwich’in and grew […]
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Survivors of the Former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and the Government of Canada mark the national historic significance of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
From: Parks Canada February 12, 2025 Today, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, announced the designation of the Former Kamloops Indian Residential School as a national historic site under Parks Canada’s National Program of Historical Commemoration. The Former Kamloops Indian Residential […]
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Parliament Hill site chosen for residential school survivors monument – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 30, 2025 Monument will be located west of West Block, the National Capital Commission reveals at board meeting A Parliament Hill site has finally been selected for a national monument for residential school survivors. “The site of the Residential Schools National Monument is on the west side of Parliament Hill and highly visible in […]
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Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict issues statement on potential discovery of unmarked graves near Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) – NetNewsLedger
January 29, 2025 (Toronto, Ont.) Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict has issued the following statement on the recent potential discovery of 144 unmarked graves at a former residential school near Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation): “This month, the Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin Project Team, also known as the Grassy Narrows Unmarked Grave Project, announced it […]
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