Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, Kimberly Murray, delivers remarks on an Indigenous-led reparations framework during a national gathering in Gatineau, Que., on Oct. 29, 2024.
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The report focuses on unaccounted missing children, unmarked grave sites, and the roles of government and churches in the Indian Residential School genocide.
Medical staff care for prematurely born Palestinian babies in a hospital in Rafah in the Gaza Strip in November 2023.
(AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Health-care workers have a direct impact in areas of conflict due to their ability to provide care — and bear direct witness to atrocities. In Gaza, Canada and beyond, they must be heeded.
Maya youth work to suppress wildfires near their family’s milpa farm in May 2024 near Laguna Village in the Toledo District of southern Belize.
(Pablo Mis)
Recent wildfires in Belize shows how we must work together to revitalize Indigenous knowledge systems and plant the seeds of collaborative climate action.
A heart garden at University of Manitoba honours relatives, children who never came home, families that had their children taken, Survivors and intergenerational Survivors of Residential Schools.
(University of Manitoba Faculty of Education)
When universities declare commitments to reconciliation, these commitments must accompany changes necessary to ensure Indigenous students are truly welcomed and celebrated on campuses.
A collective apology cannot speak to the range of experiences or contributions to harm of anti-Indigenous racism. As racism operates at multiple levels, so must accountability.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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.
Enos Montour wrote about what life was like in an Ontario Residential School.
(United Church of Canada Archives)
‘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.
On Sept. 30, community groups across Canada observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the generations impacted by the residential school system and to remember the children who never returned home.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
This playlist of podcast episodes invites listeners to engage in learning and unlearning; to acknowledge the tragic legacies of residential schools and to move beyond a single day of remembrance.
Michael Miller, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
A new mathematical model shows the numbers able to speak te reo Māori will likely keep growing – as long as the right government policies and public support are maintained.
Tanien (Daniel) Ashini, far left, and Penote (Ben) Michel, far right, with family members arriving at Meshikamau-shipu, a traditional Innu travel route, during the author’s first visit in 1995
Colin Samson
There is ample evidence showing Indigenous Peoples and their territories are essential to the world’s biodiversity. We don’t need an unsupported statistic to prove it.
People cross the Fraser River on a pedestrian bridge from Vancouver to Richmond, B.C., during a Walk for Mother Earth march to the B.C. Legislature organized by Extinction Rebellion, in 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A course exemplifies one way group collaboration to address the climate crisis can begin: with each person identifying key moments in their engagement, and contributing this to a larger ‘river’ model.
Harry Mosby won a silver medal for Australia at the 1976 Paralympics. It has only recently come to light how significant that achievement was.
Grey Owl (Archibald Stansfeld Belaney) was a Canadian writer and conservationist and one of the most well-known Indigenous imposters.
(CP / National Archives of Canada C-036186)
Four Red River Métis scholars discuss their intimate role in the ongoing issue of Indigenous identity fraud.
Chief Dsta'hyl of the Wet'suwet'en Nation appears via videoconference from his home, under house arrest, as he is announced by Amnesty International as Canada’s first-ever prisoner of conscience, during a news conference at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on July 31, 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
The B.C. Court’s dismissal of Chief Dsta’hyl’s justification that he was following Wet’suwet’en law points to the need for broader discussion regarding rights and jurisdiction.
Despite ongoing oppression by the settler state, the Red River Métis are often overlooked in federal settlement agreements involving Canada’s colonial past.
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Now more than ever we need Red River Métis health data that is conducted ethically and is respectful of both individual and collective rights, and accurately represents our distinct population.
A flare burns at a gas facility in the Jedney Creek area near Buick, B.C. in July 2023.
(AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The agreement between the Haida Nation and B.C. is laudable. However, Canada’s history of false promises means the federal government is unlikely to enact similar deals any time soon.
The energy transition requires the development of new infrastructure, which can have adverse effects on the environment and on certain communities.
Children’s shoes over the steps leading up to the site of former Indian Residential School, the Mohawk Institute, in Brantford, Ont. in November 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
Although there is now a wide body of public information about residential schools, many people continue to have limited knowledge about them. That provides fertile ground for misinformation.
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University