The Canadian Medical Association’s apology for harms to Indigenous Peoples is an opportunity to reflect on the gap between apologies and the work of true repair necessary for reconciliation.
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‘Brown Tom’s Schooldays’ was first self-published decades ago, and shows how one First Nations boy came of age and grappled with the assimilation agenda of Indian Residential Schools.
Labour is the central theme for understanding history and legacies of Mount Elgin Industrial School, a former Indian Residential School, in a new exhibition at Art Windsor Essex.
Contrary to what some ‘denialists’ believe, research shows that Canadian media outlets did not help circulate a ‘mass grave hoax’ regarding unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools.
The author led a search for unmarked graves at the site of Blue Quills, a former residential school. She found more areas of interest (potential graves) than the official record shows.
To honour Truth and Reconciliation Day, we spoke with Terri Cardinal, who headed up one of the many community searches for the children who went missing while attending an Indian Residential School.
Survivors of multiple colonial school systems need their voices to be heard. An exhibit examines how colonial schooling policies over a century and a half influenced the Blood People.
This summer, one family is marching from Regina to Ottawa, hoping to raise awareness about the vulnerabilities and systemic inequalities faced by Indigenous boys, men and Two-Spirit People.
Ironically perhaps, it may be the move toward reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and settler Canadians that revives the focus of the Crown in Canadian schooling.
This new agreement finally allows First Nations to decide for themselves how the funding will revitalize their language and culture independently of the government.
Canada’s recent resolution to label the Indian Residential School system as genocide (and not cultural genocide) is not a mere alteration of words, it is a significant and consequential change.
Canadian journalist institutions have failed to address their ongoing colonialism and that has meant that urgent Indigenous issues have been ignored or sensationalized.
In B.C., residential school principals sat on public school boards, and some Indigenous children even attended public schools. Understanding such links matters for truth and reconciliation.
In the middle of the tremendous outpouring of love and grief for the Queen and the monarchy she represented, not everyone wants to take a moment of silence. And there are a lot of reasons why.
The Pope’s apology could mark a new way forward if the Catholic Church makes genuine reparations for the evils it perpetrated.
Visiting Indigenous people on their land was a step in the right direction, but the pope’s visit was full of tensions over both what was said and what wasn’t.
A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
Apologizing for people versus the establishment that upheld not only the Indian Residential Schools system but protected – and continues to protect — the people who committed the crimes is horrifying.
Whether this apology has truly advanced the goal of healing may become evident only in years and decades to come.
Residential schools and the papal bulls justifying the doctrine of discovery call out for concrete acts of atonement and reparation on the part of the church.
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Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Lethbridge
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
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Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
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Assistant Professor, Indigenous Methodologies, Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies, Trent University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Director, Indigenous Initiatives, MacEwan University
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Professor, Sociology & Criminology, University of Manitoba
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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Department of Eductional Studies, Brock University
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Professor, Dept of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina
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Rogers Journalist in Residence at the TMU School of Journalism/Host and Producer, CBC Radio, Toronto Metropolitan University
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PhD. Candidate, Geography, Queen's University, Ontario
