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Aboriginal coalition wants to reopen residential schools settlement
A coalition of groups for Indian residential school survivors wants to reopen the $5-billion compensation settlement agreement, its spokesmen said Thursday in Winnipeg.  Residential Schools5/23/2013
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In a grassland graveyard, pupils pay tribute to Alberta’s long-lost native children
(Alberta) -- Lucie Sinclair. Lizzie Devins. Charles Godin. Esther Wolf. Louisa Wolf. One by one, the students read aloud the names of children buried in this grassland...
5/17/2013
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Residential School Survivors Reunite In Williams Lake
(British Columbia) -- Residential school survivors in Williams Lake, B.C., are reuniting this weekend to remember and heal.
5/3/2013
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Minister Valcourt unaware of residential school document destruction denial policy
(Ottawa) -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt says he’s unaware of an internal analysis drafted by his department outlining Ottawa’s position to...
5/2/2013
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Extend mandate of aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation Commission: opposition
(Ottawa) -- In the wake of a damning auditor general’s report casting doubt on creating a legacy of Indian residential schools, opposition members are calling for...
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Truth Commission hears Canadian abuse stories
(Montreal) -- STORIES of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse at church-run residential schools for aboriginal children in Canada were told in public at the Truth...
5/1/2013
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TRC ready to again take residential school document fight with Ottawa to court
(Ottawa) -- Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair says he will again take the battle over historical Indian residential school documents to the courts if...
4/30/2013
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Indian residential school historical record threatened by TRC, Aboriginal Affairs bumbling: Auditor General
(Ottawa) -- In Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s spring 2013 report, his office found that nearly three years after the work began and with a year left before the...
4/28/2013
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Abused aboriginal children's archive of pain grows
(Saskatchewan) -- Justice Murray Sinclair has travelled across Canada collecting nightmares for almost four years now.
4/27/2013
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Paul Martin accuses residential schools of 'cultural genocide'
(Canada) -- Residential schools engaged in "cultural genocide," former prime minister Paul Martin said Friday at the hearings of the federal Truth And...
4/21/2013
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WILSON: An insincere apology
(Canada) -- It hurts people to think so -- and I truly regret if it hurts anyone for me to say so here -- but the Prime Minister’s apology for residential schools...
3/30/2013
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Rediscovered art by residential-school pupils paints a portrait of survival
(British Columbia) -- For 50 years, a rare collection of first nations paintings was stashed away in bags and boxes, long forgotten by the artists. The subjects are...
3/24/2013
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American Indian boarding schools topic of UM lecture Monday
(Montana) -- University of Minnesota American studies Associate Professor Brenda Child will deliver a lecture titled “The American Indian Boarding School...
3/23/2013
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Tears flow as residential school victims share stories of abuse and heartache
(Alberta) -- Crumpled tissues damp with the tears of residential school survivors were collected in a small basket Saturday as men and women recounted traumatic...
3/19/2013
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Regina lawyer tussles with Canada over legal fees for Residential Schools case
(Saskatchewan) -- Years after a settlement was reached to pay compensation to thousands of former students of Indian Residential Schools, the federal government...
3/15/2013
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A 'Digital Wigwam' Explores the Trauma of Indian Boarding Schools at the Family Level
(Ohio) -- In the fall, journalist and ICTMN contributor Mary Annette Pember displayed an installation called Digital Wigwam at Thunder-Sky, Inc., a gallery specializing...
3/10/2013
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Residential schools chief adjudicator to resign
(Manitoba) -- Canada’s chief adjudicator for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement’s Independent Assessment Process (IAP) has resigned, APTN...
3/2/2013
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Abandoned Indian School Graves Will Be Protected
(Saskatchewan) -- The abandoned gravesite has not been in use for over 100 years, but the memories of what it stands for remain. Officials with the City of Regina say...
2/24/2013
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Residential schools settlement agreement breached again – allegations
(British Columbia) -- Residential school survivors are being reassured that they’re safe now that a convicted murderer is back behind bars. The notice comes from...
2/18/2013
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At least 3,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, research shows
(Canada) -- At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada...
2/13/2013
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Abandoned graves for Indian Industrial School will be protected
(Saskatchewan) -- Officials with the City of Regina say a cemetery associated with a former Indian Industrial School will be protected, even as the city expands to...
2/11/2013
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Residential school survivor says compensation process failed him
(North Canada) -- A residential school survivor says the Independent Assessment Process failed him and other students. John Mantla, from Behchoko, N.W.T., says he...
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Abandoned graves for Indian Industrial School will be protected
(Saskatchewan) -- Officials with the City of Regina say a cemetery associated with a former Indian Industrial School will be protected, even as the city expands to...
2/3/2013
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Federal government ordered to hand over millions of residential school documents
(Canada) -- The federal government has been ordered to hand over millions of documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that is trying to determine the depth...
2/1/2013
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Getting to the ‘heart’ of residential schools
(Alberta) -- As Charlene Bearhead sheds light on one of Canada’s darkest moments students of all ages look on. They hang on her every word.
1/30/2013
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Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records
(Ontario) -- The federal government must scour its archives for millions of documents related to the Indian residential schools that operated in Canada for more than...
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Ottawa ordered to provide all residential schools documents
(Ontario) -- The federal government is obliged to turn over its archival records on Indian residential schools to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an Ontario...
1/22/2013
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Former students at residential schools to tell their stories
(Montreal) -- The commission examining the treatment of aboriginal children in residential schools in the early 1900s is holding its first meetings in Quebec.
1/20/2013
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RUSTYWIRE: The Story of Nacho, the Boy From the Indian Boarding School
(New Mexico) -- It was an old building; the buildings there were all old. Built in the early 1900s, they were red brick. Some would say they were Victorian.
1/12/2013
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Native children in care surpass residential school era
(Ottawa) -- John Beaucage has given the heartbreak he sees around him a name: the Millennium Scoop. The First Nations leader was recently hired by the Ontario government...
1/10/2013
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Indian Assimilation: The Mystery of the Tiny Handcuffs, Solved
(Kansas) -- Shane Murray vividly recalls the scowl on the face of the young Native woman at Haskell Indian Nation University’s Cultural Center when he placed a...
12/29/2012
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OP/ED: Perspectives on 2012: Help and reconciliation possible when you talk
(British Columbia) -- In April, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission passed through the Cowichan Valley leaving in its wake feelings of enlightenment and confusion,...
12/21/2012
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Debate over crucial residential school documents delays reconciliation deal
(Ontario) -- An Ontario court is being asked to determine how much Canada owes to tens of thousands of former inmates of church-run residential schools that were part of...
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Ottawa says it never agreed to duplicate residential school records
(Ottawa) -- The federal government says the settlement it signed with survivors of aboriginal residential schools did not include a promise to duplicate all of the...
12/20/2012
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Residential schools inquiry in court arguing for documents
(Toronto) -- The public inquiry into Indian residential schools is in court in Toronto today hoping to force the federal government to provide the records it wants.
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Ottawa accused of reneging on residential schools deal
(Ottawa) -- The Canadian government cannot be allowed to renege on a legal deal with its aboriginal people simply because sticking to the terms would cost too much, an...
12/19/2012
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Ottawa balked at high cost of releasing residential school records
(Ottawa) -- It was meant to be a permanent and public record of a sad chapter in Canadian history. But it has evolved into a court battle between the government and the...
12/9/2012
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Native Author Discusses Adventures in an Indian Boarding School
(Montana) -- M.L. McCluskey, or Murt, as he prefers to be called, graduated from the Cut Bank Indian Boarding School in Browning, Montana after eighth grade.
12/4/2012
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RCMP files, records of missing children, graves may never surface if Ottawa wins battle with TRC
(Ottawa) -- Indian residential school records on dead and missing children and abuse complaints to the RCMP may never see the light of day if Ottawa gets its way in its...
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TRC taking feds to court over documents
(Ottawa) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is heading taking Canada to court hoping to force the federal government to hand over what they say is much needed...
12/3/2012
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First Nations’ day-school pupils seek compensation
(British Columbia) -- Former First Nations students who attended day schools in B.C. have signed on to a class-action suit to seek compensation similar to that agreed to...
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TRC takes Ottawa to court in battle over “control” of residential school history
(Ottawa) -- The commission created to delve into the dark chapter of residential schools is taking its battle for “control over history” with Ottawa to the...
11/26/2012
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Residential Schools window dedicated on Parliament Hill
(Canada) -- A ceremony was held on Parliament Hill Monday to dedicate a new stained glass window to commemorate the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.
11/9/2012
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Feds to pay $125M in residential school settlements
(Canada) -- The federal government will spend $125 million over its projected budget this fiscal year to fund out-of-court-settlements for residential school survivors.
11/2/2012
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Healing totem pole to be erected in Whitehorse
(North Canada) -- An 11-metre totem pole meant to help former residential school students heal will be erected on Main Street in Whitehorse over the weekend.
10/28/2012
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Former Mt. Pleasant Center medical director shares memories, photographs of the facilities
(Michigan) -- As medical director at the Mt. Pleasant Center for two years, Dr. Jay Hoffman took care of residents with developmental disabilities from about 2004 to...
10/25/2012
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Copy the territories on mandatory residential school education
(Ontario) -- The documentary 8th Fire, shown on CBC earlier this year, had a number of wonderful scenes, but one in particular stands out given recent news coming from...
10/18/2012
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Healing from the effects of residential schools
(Ontario) -- As she stood on the pier waving goodbye to her parents, she did not know it was the last time she would ever see them.
10/14/2012
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Winnipeg Researchers Get $500K For Residential Schools Digital Storytelling Project
(Manitoba) -- A $500,000 grant from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation will help the University of Winnipeg’s Oral History Centre produce a digital storytelling...
10/13/2012
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A Reflection on Visiting Carlisle Indian School
(Pennsylvania) -- This past weekend, my wife and I accompanied a group to Carlisle School Symposium at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
10/11/2012
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Carlisle Indian School’s History Must Be Preserved So Those Who Suffered Aren’t Forgotten
(Pennsylvania) -- When the U.S. Army decided to raze the Farmhouse at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School (CIIS), it caused such an uproar that the Army started...
10/9/2012
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Residential schools studies part of mandatory Grade 10 lessons in Canada’s North
(Canada) -- Paul Andrew remembers the long trek home from school. Every summer for seven years, Andrew would return from Grolier Hall in Inuvik, Northwest Territories,...
9/30/2012
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Boarding schools left mark for life
(South Dakota) -- The Rapid City Journal refused to publish my weekly column on 9/27/12 re: Native American boarding schools - hinged on the award-winning film "The...
9/24/2012
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University of Winnipeg gets large grant for residential school project
(Winnipeg) -- The University of Winnipeg says it has received a $500,000 grant to document the intergenerational effects of residential schools.
9/19/2012
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Last day for residential school abuse claims to be filed
(Saskatchewan) -- Aboriginal Canadians who suffered physical or sexual abuse in residential schools have until the end of today to apply for federal compensation.
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Ottawa silent on compensation for First Nations residential school "day scholars"
(Ottawa) -- Residential schools were boarding schools operated by the Canadian government as part of its "aggressive assimilation" policy which sought to...
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Some residential school survivors can’t get Ottawa to recognize claims
(Ottawa) -- Many survivors of residential schools have had their compensation claims denied, including those who submitted paperwork through the Independent Assessment...
9/17/2012
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Residential school survivors continue healing journey
(Prince Edward Island) -- They are healing. Some are dealing with the harm better than others; each at his or her pace and in his or her way.
9/14/2012
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Editorial: Healing from Indian child ‘takings’ is in the telling
(Maine) -- There is no way to take back the past. But if Maine wants to ensure that it never, ever repeats its racist, oppressive treatment of American Indian families...
9/13/2012
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Boyle Street staff fan out to find abused residential school survivors
(Alberta) -- Dozens of Boyle Street staff fanned out across Edmonton Tuesday, searching for former Indian residential school students who suffered abuse and might miss...
9/12/2012
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Only 1 week left for residential school students to file claims
(Saskatchewan) -- There's only one week left for survivors of Indian residential schools to file abuse claims with the federal government — and the offices...
9/11/2012
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Edmonton homeless association seeks aboriginal victims for residential school compensation
(Edmonton) -- Members of the Boyle Street Community Services (BSCS) went out on Tuesday to search for people in the city’s homeless community who are eligible for...
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Residential school survivor outrage growing over mishandled claims
(Alberta) -- Emotions ran high for a group of residential school survivors in Cardston, Alta. Clients of Blott and Company want the IAP deadline extended because their...
9/7/2012
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Head of Truth and Reconciliation Commission wants Saskatchewan Metis heard
(Saskatchewan) -- The head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says former students at two Metis boarding schools in northern Saskatchewan should be afforded the...
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A Battle Over Historical Significance for the Carlisle Indian School Farmhouse
(Pennsylvania) -- The struggle to save the farmhouse at the former Carlisle Indian School (CIS) now includes an official request to re-evaluate the building’s...
9/2/2012
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Update: U.S. Army Set to Raze Indian School Landmark Over Descendants' Objections
(Pennsylvania) -- Despite an outpouring of pleas from descendants and relatives of students who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, including a petition with...
8/21/2012
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Native Americans Sue Canada for School Abuses
(British Columbia) -- Canada unfairly excluded from a monetary settlement Native American students who suffered abuse at residential schools, but did not live at them,...
8/18/2012
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Residential School Day Scholars Launch Canada-Wide Lawsuit Against Abuse, ‘Genocide’
(British Columbia) -- A historic class action lawsuit by people who attended Indian Residential Schools as “day scholars” has begun to spread across Canada,...
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Carlisle Indian School Descendants Fight to Preserve a Part of that Painful History
(Pennsylvania) -- The last building where Native American students lived and attended classes at the Carlisle Indian School (CIS) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is slated for...
8/17/2012
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TRC hears painful Inuit residential school stories
(Ottawa) -- Meanwhile, the truth and reconciliation commission heard from the urban Inuit community Thursday in Ottawa. Sharing painful stories is part of the healing...
8/16/2012
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Residential school day scholars launch class-action lawsuit
(Canada) -- The leader of the Assembly of First Nations hopes a class-action lawsuit launched in British Columbia on behalf of a group of former residential school...
8/14/2012
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Residential school survivors hope dark yesterday can bring light tomorrow
(Canada) -- Fredericton recently played host to a unique gathering. Mi’kmaq and Maliseet youth had the chance to sit down with survivors of the Indian Residential...
8/10/2012
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Boat burned to heal scars from Residential School days
(Saskatchewan) -- A symbolic boat burning took place Thursday as part of a healing process for survivors of Indian Residential schools.
8/9/2012
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Kenora inmates to speak of residential school legacy
(Ontario) -- Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is at the Kenora District Jail Thursday to take statements on how the Indian Residential School experience...
8/8/2012
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Symbolic boat to aid healing of Residential School memories
(Saskatchewan) -- Former students of Indian Residential Schools recall being taken by boat away from their homes in Saskatchewan's north. The Lac La Ronge Indian...
7/31/2012
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Residential school survivor seeks money for injury
(Saskatchewan) -- An Alberta residential school survivor is in Regina to meet with others who were accidentally injured and have never received compensation. Lloyd...
7/25/2012
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Residential school goes from tragedy to triumph
(British Columbia) -- For more than half a century, the hated brick building of the St. Eugene Mission swallowed up native children and spit them back out, traumatized...
7/24/2012
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Residential school abuse claims surpass federal estimates
(Ottawa) -- The number of people coming forward to say they were seriously abused at Canada’s Indian residential schools greatly outstrips early federal estimates...
7/23/2012
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Survivor payouts likely to soar
(Winnipeg) -- A portion of the historic residential school settlement to compensate survivors could double in size before the deadline for applications in September,...
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Reminder to Former Indian Residential School Students That the Deadline to Apply for Financial Compensation Is September 19, 2012
(Canada) -- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada would like to remind former students of Indian residential schools that important deadlines under the...
7/5/2012
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Former judge meets with Blood tribe to help Indian residential school survivors
(Alberta) -- Members of the Blood Tribe in southern Alberta say a retired B.C. judge's visit to their community has renewed some faith in the settlement process for...
6/16/2012
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American Indians and the On-going Effects of the Boarding School Period
(Colorado) -- The proliferation of alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide among American Indians serve as evidence of the on-going effects of the boarding school period was...
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Commentary: Moving the US Boarding Schools Policy into the American Consciousness
(Michigan) -- It is fair to say the average American has never heard of how the government agents showed up at American Indian homes to tell parents they had to send...
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Dark residential school memories still pushing many over the edge
(Canada) -- The recent suicide of a 63 year-old elder prompted a group of family members and health care workers to come together to share their pain and give Canada a...
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Penelakut Elder committed suicide day he was to recount residential school experiences for settlement payout
(British Columbia) -- A 63 year-old elder hung himself the day before his hearing for residential school compensation. The tiny remote island community, just off...
6/11/2012
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Native patience runs thin four years after residential-school apology
(Ottawa) -- Four years after Stephen Harper offered an unfettered apology for residential schools, the Prime Minister is at a turning point in his relationship with...
6/9/2012
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Remembering the 154 Students Who Did Not Survive the Mt. Pleasant Boarding School
(Michigan) -- During the time the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School existed there were 154 known deaths that occurred while students attended.
6/8/2012
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Law firm barred
(Calgary) -- Calgary law firm Blott and Company has been barred from representing residential school victims. This after a judge ruled that the firm was using its...
6/6/2012
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Judge punishes lawyer for ‘loan scheme’ targeting residential school survivors
(Vancouver) -- A Vancouver judge has kicked a Calgary lawyer out of the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) based on the allegations made by investigators.
6/1/2012
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Indian residential school deaths found by Ontario coroner
(Ontario) -- An intensive review of Ontario records has so far turned up more than 100 possible cases of previously unidentified child and youth deaths linked to Indian...
5/31/2012
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Residential school trauma haunts women still
(Canada) -- The legacy of residential schools continues to impact thousands of Aboriginal men and women across the country.
5/27/2012
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Truth and Reconciliation Walk Brings Attention to Residential School Survivors
(Ontario) -- A father and son are once again taking part in a lengthy walk to raise awareness of the impacts that residential schools continue to have on survivors and...
5/16/2012
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Aboriginal Peoples' Stories Remain Unheard
(Vancouver) -- The national Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, which started over two years ago, has been largely ignored by the Canadian...
5/14/2012
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Calgary law firm accused of fleecing residential school survivors faces demand over records
(Canada) -- A hearing into alleged abuses in the residential schools compensation process ended Friday. The judge heard six days of information into the practices of...
4/15/2012
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Residential schools: ‘We carried this with us all our lives’
(British Columbia) -- At night, as he struggled with the loneliness of residential school, Eric Pelkey would wrap himself tightly in his sheet so the abusive dorm...
4/9/2012
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Ex-NHLer describes rape at residential school
(Saskatchewan) -- Agony was etched on the face of hockey pioneer Fred Sasakamoose this week as he talked about being raped at an Indian residential school almost seven...
4/2/2012
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Metis National Council calls for reconciliation for Metis residential school students
(Canada) -- The Metis National Council is meeting in Saskatoon to discuss issues surrounding the Metis experience in residential schools and how to push for official...
3/29/2012
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Métis reflect on Residential School experiences
(Saskatchewan) -- Métis people gathered in Saskatoon to talk about the legacy of residential schools and the impact the experience had on their lives. "We went...
3/25/2012
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“Death was a constant companion”: residential school and Holocaust survivors share their stories
(Manitoba) -- Dean Linklater is a residential school survivor, one of many at a recent event in Winnipeg where survivors of the Holocaust and of the residential school...
3/22/2012
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“Death was a constant companion”: residential school and Holocaust survivors share their stories
(Winnipeg) -- Dean Linklater is a residential school survivor, one of many at a recent event in Winnipeg where survivors of the Holocaust and of the residential school...
3/16/2012
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BLOG: Ruby’s Story
(Canada) -- Today, I’d like to present to you something a little different; an interview of sorts. A while ago, a comment on one of my blog posts really caught my...
3/11/2012
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A Response to Chuck Trimble’s “Keeping Victimhood in Perspective”
(South Dakota) -- I was very disappointed to read Chuck Trimble’s mean-spirited, divisive commentary “Keeping Victimhood in Perspective.” I have never...
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Lakehead University Highlights Residential School Effects
(Ontario) -- Aboriginal Awareness Week at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay culminates today and tomorrow with a focus on how residential schools affected not just...
3/6/2012
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Aboriginal Affairs department official made request for “illegal” deletion of emails: expert
(Ottawa) -- Ottawa’s response to a sensitive subject is raising concerns. When the Aboriginal Affairs Minister said he didn’t feel residential schools fit...
3/3/2012
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Disbarred lawyer’s handling of deceased residential school student’s file leaves painful legacy
(Canada) -- Trying to move beyond the legacy of residential schools is difficult enough for survivors. What can make it more stressful is going through the long and...
3/2/2012
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Chief responds to TRC report
(Manitoba) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its Interim Report, Friday along with a historical publication called They Came for the Children:...
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TRIMBLE: Keeping Victimhood in Perspective
(South Dakota) -- Since we’re in an era in which fact, truth and accuracy are of little importance, let me use conjecture to tell about something that happened at...
3/1/2012
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TRC Commissioner changes tune on residential schools as genocide
(Canada) -- This was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Their interim report, released Friday, offered steps for a...
2/28/2012
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Tough lessons from residential schools
(British Columbia) -- The education system was the vehicle for inflicting generations of abuse and pain on aboriginal people in Canada so it must also be the vehicle for...
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Wayne K. Spear: Teach Canadians the history of residential schools
(Canada) -- Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has received a dab of media attention, much of it for regrettable reasons. In October 2008, the TRC Chair...
2/27/2012
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Canada commission issues details abuse of native children
(Canada) -- A commission examining Canada's policy to separate indigenous children from their families says the abuse created a legacy of turmoil.
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TRC Commissioner changes tune on residential schools as genocide
(Canada) -- This was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Their interim report, released Friday, offered steps for a...
2/26/2012
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Aboriginals Welcome TRC Report, Emphasize Moving Forward
(Canada) -- Aboriginal leaders welcomed the interim report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with enthusiasm tempered by a continuing call for action.
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Residential-schools commission calls for national awareness campaign
(Ottawa) -- The commission that was established to reveal the dark legacy of church-run residential schools for aboriginal children says all Canadians should be made...
2/24/2012
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More teaching about ‘the Rez' legacy urged
(Canada) -- Funding for education, healing and cultural revival programs were among major recommendations in an interim report by the commission probing the legacy of...
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Ottawa, churches withholding documents, residential schools commission says
(Ottawa) -- Ottawa is restricting access to federal archives and withholding several key documents on church-run residential schooling, says the Truth and Reconciliation...
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Residential school survivor keen on sharing experience
(Ontario) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its interim report Friday on dealing with Canada's residential school legacy. One recommendation is for...
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission says healing requires education
(North Canada) -- Tears form in Barney Williams eyes and his hand rests over his heart when he speaks about how important a report on residential schools is for First...
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Residential school memoir Fatty Legs signals a future for First Nations literature
(Canada) -- When Christy Jordan-Fenton first suggested writing down some of the stories her mother-in-law, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, had been telling for years around the...
2/23/2012
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Residential schools commission calls for national awareness campaign
(Canada) -- The commission that was established to reveal the dark legacy of church-run residential schools for aboriginal children says all Canadians should be made...
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Lawyer who fleeced residential school survivors now in Israel
(Canada) -- On Tuesday, APTN National News reported on the story of Howard Lorne Tennenhouse. He’s the Winnipeg lawyer disbarred for life for fleecing dozens of...
2/22/2012
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Lawyer disbarred, pleads guilty to taking nearly $1 million from residential school survivors
(Winnipeg) -- Howard Lorne Tennenhouse was disbarred by the Law Society of Manitoba Tuesday after pleading guilty to taking nearly $1 million from 55 residential school...
2/21/2012
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MORON ALERT: Native school survivors' lawyer disbarred
(Manitoba) -- A Winnipeg lawyer has been stripped of his licence to practise law because he overcharged 55 former residential school students of almost $1 million.
2/18/2012
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Residential schools called a form of genocide
(Manitoba) -- The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in...
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Actual words of American Indian boarding school founder, students brought to life in play
(Minnesota) -- Retired College of St. Scholastica American Indian Studies instructor Carl Gawboy has written a play about the American Indian boarding school experience.
2/17/2012
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Residential schools were genocide, says truth and reconciliation chair
(Manitoba) -- The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in...
2/3/2012
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Ex-NHLer describes rape at residential school
(Saskatchewan) -- Agony was etched on the face of hockey pioneer Fred Sasakamoose this week as he talked about being raped at an Indian residential school almost seven...
2/2/2012
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Aboriginal coalition wants to reopen residential schools settlement
(Winnipeg) -- A coalition of groups for Indian residential school survivors wants to reopen the $5-billion compensation settlement agreement, its spokesmen said Thursday...
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Survivors society not satisfied with residential schools deal
(Winnipeg) -- It's the largest-ever compensation deal in Canadian history — but groups that represent thousands of aboriginal people have come forward to say...
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Lawyers exploiting native school survivors, says group
(Manitoba) -- Former students of native residential schools say they are being mistreated by lawyers who are supposed to help them claim federal compensation, but are...
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Man continues compensation fight over leg lost in residential school
(Canada) -- Over the years APTN National News has spoken with many residential school survivors from across Canada.
1/24/2012
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Graphic novel shines light on residential school darkness
(Canada) -- An Aboriginal artist from Calgary is working on a project about residential schools. It's a project that is being brought to life through a graphic novel.
1/23/2012
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Lawyer accused of taking money over residential school
(Winnipeg) -- A Winnipeg lawyer is accused of taking money improperly from 50 abused former students of aboriginal residential schools. Howard Tennenhouse faces a...
1/17/2012
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TRC lands in Saskatchewan to hear residential school stories
(Saskatchewan) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is making its first major stop in Saskatchewan this week. Saskatchewan’s survivors of residential schools...
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Truth commission begins Saskatchewan hearings
(Saskatchewan) -- Former residential school students in Saskatchewan can share their stories with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission over the next few months.
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Survivors of Indian Boarding Schools Tell Their Stories
(Michigan) -- Starting in the late 19th century, tens of thousands of Native American children were taken from their reservations to Indian Boarding Schools. The goal...
1/16/2012
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Regina hearings hear from elders who lived through residential school system
(Saskatchewan) -- The dark legacy of the residential school system is being explored at Regina hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
1/14/2012
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Federal official wanted emails deleted outlining plan to stonewall on residential school genocide questions
(Canada) -- Federal Aboriginal Affairs officials planned to stonewall and avoid public questions about comments made by their minister, emails obtained by APTN National...
1/10/2012
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Trail of Tears: Twins make documentary detailing horrors of Indian schools
(Michigan) -- Beginning in the late 19th century, thousands of children were taken from their parents and put into boarding schools for their entire childhoods.
12/14/2011
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Sinclair blasts Ottawa, leaders over housing feud
(Ontario) -- The chairman of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission for victims of residential schools has harsh words for aboriginal leaders and the federal...
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Dark secrets of residential schools to become part of national memory
(Canada) -- When Butch Dick hears people saying that First Nations should get on with their lives and forget the 120-year legacy of residential schools, he puts aside...
12/7/2011
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Crime bill furthers legacy of residential schools: Nepinak
(Ottawa) -- Manitoba chiefs pleaded this morning for the government not to proceed with an omnibus crime bill they say will further the legacy of residential schools in...
12/5/2011
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Residential schools commission faces financial crunch
(Manitoba) -- Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is facing higher than expected costs, so is calling on Ottawa to provide more funding or scale back the...
11/25/2011
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MORON ALERT: Residential school abuse lawyers face loan allegations
(Alberta) -- A Calgary law firm is under investigation for allegedly arranging high-interest loans for residential school survivors who were waiting for compensation...
11/23/2011
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Residential school claims soar, payout could hit $5 billion
(Vancouver) -- About 29,000 Indian residential-school survivors who claim they were abused are expected to apply for compensation, according to statistics from...
11/21/2011
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Residential school commission struggling to complete its mission
(Ottawa) -- The troubled federal commission on aboriginal residential schools is facing a series of new problems and may be unable to fulfil its mandate due to a lack of...
11/18/2011
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Film shows Native American struggles
(Michigan) -- Palpable silence resonated through the Student Center’s overfilled auditorium Monday evening in response to the opening of “Chain of Sorrows,...
11/12/2011
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Effects of American Indian boarding schools still linger today
(Minnesota) -- Susan Anderson projected the slide of an American Indian boarding school onto a screen. She looked out into the audience and asked, “Who of you...
11/9/2011
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Residential schools fit definition of genocide: Atleo
(Canada) -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo says residential schools meet the definition of genocide.
10/31/2011
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RCMP 'herded' native kids to residential schools
(Saskatchewan) -- Former aboriginal students who say the RCMP herded them off to residential schools are expressing a sense of validation following the release of a...
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RCMP unaware of residential school abuse, report says
(Saskatchewan) -- RCMP officers usually weren't aware of the need to investigate abuse in Canada's infamous native residential school system because aboriginal...
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Former Long Plain chief speaks on residential school report
(Halifax) -- After the RCMP deputy commissioner, Steve Graham, presented a research report to the federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Saturday in...
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Labrador aboriginal people still want Ottawa apology
(Canada) -- Inuit, Innu and Métis in Labrador want the federal government to reconsider an earlier decision not to include them in a compensation package and apology for...
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Residential School Survivors Share Their Stories
(Halifax) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada held a national event in Halifax October 26 to 29 at the World Trade and Convention Centre. Everyone, both...
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Residential school survivors target Catholic Church
(Vancouver) -- About 300 Occupy Vancouver demonstrators marched through Vancouver's downtown core demanding global financial and trade reform Saturday, but only a...
10/29/2011
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Treatment of Native Americans Explored in Documentary
(USA) -- This documentary, by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, about the treatment of Native American people by the United States government was screened at the...
10/28/2011
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RCMP to report on residential schools role
(Saskatchewan) -- The RCMP is planning to release a report that documents the force's involvement in Canada's infamous native residential school system.
10/27/2011
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Stained-glass Commons window to mark residential-school apology
(Ottawa) -- The federal government is planning to commemorate the apology it extended three years ago to former students of Indian residential schools by installing a...
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U of M president apologizes for residential schools
(Manitoba) -- The president of the University of Manitoba has apologized for its role in perpetuating damage caused by Canada's native residential schools. David...
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Doug George-Kanentiio: Bad residential school memories
(Canada) -- I was a student at the Mohawk Institute (a.k.a. the "Mushhole" for its unique brand of watery porridge) in Brantford, Ontario from January, 1967 to...
10/26/2011
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U of M admits role in native residential schools
(Manitoba) -- The president of the University of Manitoba is planning to make a public statement about the university's role in perpetuating the damage caused by...
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Residential school pain eased by teen's funeral
(Canada) -- The funeral was for Charlie Hunter, a teenager who died nearly 40 years ago while attending residential school. He was buried in Moose Factory, hundreds of...
10/12/2011
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BLOG: Mass genocide of Mohawks uncovered in Canada; ground penetrating radar reveals hundreds of Indian children buried around former Mohawk Institute School
(Ontario) -- In a story that is almost too horrific to believe, what looks to be a childrens' mass burial ground has been discovered around the Mohawk Institute...
10/11/2011
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Beauval school worker always suspected boys abused
(Saskatchewan) -- Now that a supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in northern Saskatchewan has been charged with abusing boys in his care, a former tudent...
10/2/2011
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Residential school employee responds to charges
(Saskatchewan) -- A man charged with abusing boys at an Indian residential school where he worked in northern Saskatchewan has responded saying the allegations are...
10/1/2011
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Public invited to learn about Indian boarding schools
(Iowa) -- The public is invited to attend a presentation about the Indian boarding school era at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Orpheum Theatre. The event is free.
9/30/2011
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Former Indian residential school employee charged with abusing boys
(Saskatchewan) -- A man who worked at an Indian residential school in northern Saskatchewan is charged with abusing boys at that institution. Paul Leroux was a dormitory...
9/27/2011
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Aboriginal residential school survivors share stories
(Toronto) -- By the time it was 7-year-old Shirley Williams’s turn to be sent off to residential school, her father had had enough.
9/4/2011
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Outreach workers looking for residential school survivors before payment deadline
(Edmonton) -- With the deadline fast approaching for federal residential schools compensation, outreach workers in Edmonton’s inner city are concerned some...
8/31/2011
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Residential Schools: Canada’s Inglorious Educational Past
(Canada) -- In 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology to former students of residential schools was a momentous step in repairing a tragic blemish...
8/24/2011
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BOOK: After Residential School, My Path to Healing
(Canada) -- An unlikely catalyst in my confronting my residential school experiences was my dear friend and older cousin Allan. He was the second-youngest of a large...
8/19/2011
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Ken Bear Chief Reaches Out to Boarding-School Survivors
(South Dakota) -- Ken Bear Chief’s voice shakes with fury as he recounts testimony he’s taken as Tamaki Law Firm’s liaison to Native Americans who...
8/15/2011
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Last chance for CEP residential school applications
(Nunavut) -- Former students of aboriginal residential schools have one last chance to apply for compensation under the Common Experience Payment program. The deadline...
8/12/2011
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TRIMBLE: I Survived Boarding School, Unfortunately…
(South Dakota) -- Over recent years I have found myself in a position of seeming to defend Indian boarding schools against assertions that depict them as a combination...
8/4/2011
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Statement-gathering still available for residential school survivors
(North Canada) -- In a small office with two windows, Sheila Mazhari sits listening to residential school survivors retelling their story.
8/2/2011
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First Nations children still taken from parents
(Saskatchewan) -- John Beaucage has given the heartbreak he sees around him a name: the Millennium Scoop. The First Nations leader was recently hired by the Ontario...
8/1/2011
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Native Sun News: One boarding school survivor shares his story
(Nebraska) -- The United Nations definition of genocide includes actions many would expect to see in such a statement, including killing and injuring members of the...
7/31/2011
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Native children in care surpass residential school era
(Ottawa) -- John Beaucage has given the heartbreak he sees around him a name: the Millennium Scoop. The First Nations leader was recently hired by the Ontario government...
7/2/2011
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New York Conference Addresses Historical Trauma Imposed by Boarding Schools
(New York) -- The organization that produced the gripping documentary “Unseen Tears”—which features boarding school survivors talking openly about the tragic separation...
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Inuvik, NWT
(Northwest Territories) -- The 130 or so years that Canada spent “educating” its aboriginal peoples to conform to the European mind-set have been over for...
7/1/2011
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Residential school survivors: improve mental health care
(North Canada) -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's second national event is wrapping up Friday in Inuvik, N.W.T., with many delegates renewing their call...
6/30/2011
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N.L. residential school survivors seek recognition
(North Canada) -- Residential school survivors from Newfoundland and Labrador say they are still seeking recognition from the federal government for what they went...
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Residential school survivors in North gather to heal
(North Canada) -- When eight-year-old Rosie Kagak returned to her high-Arctic hometown of Kugluktuk after two years at residential school in Inuvik, NWT, her brother...
6/28/2011
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Truth and Reconciliation event starts in N.W.T.
(North Canada) -- Upwards of 1,000 residential school survivors are in Inuvik, N.W.T., for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's second major hearing, which got...
6/27/2011
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Inuvik gears up for Truth and Reconciliation event
(North Canada) -- Hundreds of residential school survivors are travelling to Inuvik, N.W.T., for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's second national event,...
6/26/2011
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Healing Conference in New York Treats Historical Trauma
(New York) -- The Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagra Counties, Inc. in New York kicked off Part I of a healing conference Monday, June 20 to help...
6/11/2011
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Canada Marks Third Anniversary of Residential Schools Apology
(Canada) -- First Nations, Métis and Inuit today are marking the third anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s June 11, 2008, formal apology to their...
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OP/ED: Can We Reconcile With Reconciliation?
(Canada) -- Words are sometimes slippery, especially in law and politics. This is not always a bad thing, because ambiguous language sometimes resolves conflict, by...
6/5/2011
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Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission
(Montana) -- The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains. "I want to be here," says Garry "Bob"...
5/25/2011
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Truth commission tours Yukon communities
(Canada) -- Former residential school students in Yukon are sharing their experiences with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is wrapping up its pan-northern...
5/5/2011
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Residential school lawyer scammed victims: Law Society
(Manitoba) -- A Manitoba lawyer, accused of taking almost $400,000 from residential school survivors, said Thursday it was a misunderstanding.
4/12/2011
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Fort Hall Man Prepares For PBS Documentary Premiere
(Idaho) -- Mark Trahant Prepares For PBS Documentary Premiere
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Mark Trahant: Bringing stories about sex abuse in Alaska Native communities into the light
(Alaska) -- It’s trite to write that winter days are short this far north. And it is remarkable watching the sun skate through the sky in such a hurry to disappear...
4/10/2011
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'Frontline' documents Catholic church's apologies for abuse
(Alaska) -- Bishop Donald Kettler, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Fairbanks, sat in a tiny meeting room in the Yup'ik village of St. Michael.
3/14/2011
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Northern Hearings Begin Today
(Canada) -- Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) starts its tour of the north today, arriving in the community of Inukjuak, in northern Quebec, to...
3/4/2011
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Residential school survivor overcame ordeal
(Saskatchewan) -- On Tuesday night, Doreen, a close friend of mine, passed away. She was a survivor of residential schools. Doreen's story is remarkable not only for...
6/16/2010
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Residential school stories move out of shadows
(Manitoba) -- Residential school students line up at recess. Residential school students line up at recess. (CBC)The head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on...
6/14/2010
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Residential school survivors to tell their stories
(Ottawa) -- Two years after the federal government apologized for the wrongs done to native people during the era of the Indian Residential Schools, a unique five-year...
3/29/2010
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ROME: Aboriginal Elders Hold Pope Responsible for Residential School Abuse
(Italy) -- Aboriginal elders from Canada will offer prayers for their friends and relatives who died or were killed in Catholic Indian residential schools, at the...
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