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Aboriginal residential school survivors share stories
By the time it was 7-year-old Shirley Williams’s turn to be sent off to residential school, her father had had enough.  Residential Schools5/14/2012
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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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