The Darker Side of Residential Schools

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The Darker Side of Residential Schools:
Explore the forced removal of Indigenous children, cultural genocide, and abuse in church-run schools in Canada.

Dark side:

The parts of a person, a group, an activity, etc. that are unpleasant, evil, or harmful

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Part 1

Objective truth

Part 2

Current Page

Part 3

Residential Schools

Part 4

Boarding schools

Part 5

Hidden Shame

Part 6

Rubbish – Waste

Canada’s Dark Side

Chronically underfunded, overcrowded, and unhealthy, they were dangerous to the students who endured them. Indian Residential Schools led to rampant abuse, rape, neglect, and the death of at least 3,200 children.

The First Nations Residential Schools in Canada refer to a dark chapter in Canadian history where Indigenous children from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities were forcibly taken from their families and placed in government-funded, church-run residential schools. These schools were established in the late 19th century and continued to operate into the late 20th century, with the last school closing in 1996. The key points related to the First Nations Residential Schools in Canada are:

  1. Forced Removal of Indigenous Children: Indigenous children, often as young as 3 or 4 years old, were forcibly removed from their families and communities and sent to residential schools. This policy of forced removal was part of the Canadian government’s attempt to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian culture and suppress their language, culture, and spirituality.

  2. Church-Run Schools: The residential schools were primarily run by Christian churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the United Church of Canada, and others, in partnership with the Canadian government. These schools were managed by religious orders and were funded by the federal government, often operating under a system of contracts.

  3. Cultural Genocide: Indigenous children in residential schools were subjected to cultural genocide, as they were forcibly stripped of their language, culture, and traditional practices. They were forbidden from speaking their native languages, practicing their spiritual beliefs, or engaging in traditional cultural activities. This had a profound and lasting impact on Indigenous communities, resulting in the loss of language, culture, and intergenerational trauma.

  4. Abuse and Neglect: Many Indigenous children in residential schools experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as neglect. There were numerous reports of physical punishment, sexual abuse, malnutrition, and inadequate healthcare in these schools. The harsh living conditions, abuse, and neglect in residential schools resulted in significant trauma and impacted the mental, emotional, and physical health of the survivors.

  5. High Mortality Rates: Many Indigenous children died while attending residential schools due to disease outbreaks, inadequate healthcare, and unsanitary living conditions. The mortality rates in these schools were often much higher than those in the general Canadian population. The bodies of many children who died in these schools were never returned to their families, and their graves were often unmarked or unidentified, leading to the discovery of unmarked burial sites in recent years.

  6. Intergenerational Impacts: The legacy of the residential schools continues to affect Indigenous communities in Canada today. The trauma, loss of language and culture, and other impacts have been passed down through generations, resulting in ongoing challenges such as mental health issues, substance abuse, poverty, and cultural dislocation.

  7. Truth and Reconciliation: In 2008, the Canadian government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and document the history and legacy of the residential schools. The TRC held hearings across the country and heard testimony from thousands of survivors and their families. In 2015, the TRC released its final report, which included 94 recommendations for reconciliation, including apologies, reparations, and systemic changes to support healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada.

  8. Calls to Action: The TRC’s final report included 94 Calls to Action, which provide a roadmap for addressing the legacy of residential schools and achieving reconciliation. These Calls to Action include measures such as implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, addressing the health and welfare of Indigenous children, supporting language and culture revitalization efforts, and addressing the over-representation of Indigenous children in the child welfare system, among others.

  9. Apologies and Reparations: The Canadian government and various Christian churches have issued apologies for the role they played in the establishment and operation of the residential schools. Some churches have also provided financial repar

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Residential schools to blame for problems plaguing aboriginals

Justice

Residential schools “inflicted profound injustices” on Aboriginal people. “The children who attended residential schools were treated as if they were offenders and were at risk of being physically and sexually abused,” the TRC says.

When they complained of abuse, the students were often ignored.
Years later, when they launched civil lawsuits, they found the legal system was stacked against them “in a way that often re-victimized the survivors.”

Nation Post

The criminal justice system also fell short. The TRC has been able to identify fewer than 50 convictions stemming from abuse at residential schools – a fraction of the more than 38,000 claims of sexual and serious physical abuse that were submitted to a compensation adjudication process established several years ago.

“In many ways, the residential school experience lies at the root of the current over incarceration of Aboriginal people,” says the TRC.

Reconciliation

A situation in which two people or groups of people become friendly again after they have argued:

It took hours of negotiations to bring about a reconciliation between the two sides.

The process of making two opposite beliefs, ideas, or situations agree

Cambridge Dictionary

“Traumatized by their school experiences, many succumbed to addictions and found themselves among the disproportionate number of Aboriginal people who come into conflict with the law.”

The TRC says once Aboriginal people are arrested and convicted, they are more likely to go to prison than are non-Aboriginals.

Canada’s prisons are disproportionately filled with Aboriginals.

TRC = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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Inside the Williams Lake residential school: Violation of Trust (1991) – The Fifth Estate

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11 feb 2022 WILLIAMS LAKE

WARNING: This documentary includes distressing details and could be triggering for some viewers.

Originally broadcast on Jan. 9, 1991, “Violation of Trust,” hosted by Gillian Findlay, is an in-depth examination of Canada’s residential school system and was, at the time, one of the first documentaries to reveal to a non-Indigenous audience the abuse students in the system endured. It’s important to note that some of the language used is outdated and would not be used today, nor would some of the assumptions about Indigenous people.

The program focuses on St. Joseph’s Mission School, which operated from 1891 to 1981 in Williams Lake, B.C. Broadcast 10 years after the school closed, it provides what is likely the most complete visual overview of the grounds as they were when the school was in operation, an important historical record. The structures have since been demolished and in 2022, 93 potential burial sites, presumed to be the graves of children, were uncovered.

We hear from survivors in the recent aftermath of their time at the school. Clergy who ran the school are asked directly about sexual abuse allegations, both personal and systemic. The term generational trauma was not yet in common use when this documentary was produced, but it nevertheless attempts to grapple with the lasting harm that the Canadian government and Catholic and Protestant churches caused Indigenous people in a system built on forced separation, assimilation and emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

About The Fifth Estate: For four decades The Fifth Estate has been Canada’s premier investigative documentary program. Hosts Bob McKeown, Gillian Findlay and Mark Kelley continue a tradition of provocative and fearless journalism. The Fifth Estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians — delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy.

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Kamloops residential school survivors recall students going missing, digging of graves in orchard

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14 jan. 2022

WARNING: This video contains distressing details. The Fifth Estate uses exclusive access to show how the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation is dealing with the traumatic discovery of what are assumed to be the graves of children near a former residential school in The reckoning: Secrets unearthed by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc.
 
 
Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools, and those who are triggered by the latest reports. 
 
A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.

The dark legacy of Canada’s residential schools, where thousands of children died

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7 feb. 2022

Last year, archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at a residential school in Canada, bringing new attention to one of the country’s most shameful chapters. Anderson Cooper reports.
 
“60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen’s Top 10.
 
 
 

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Canada Officially Recognizes Historical Abuse To First Nations

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17 dec. 2015

 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially recognized Canada’s historical abuses toward aboriginals, and he is now calling on the Pope to apologize too.
 
ColdWarWarriors
Same thing happened in Australia, this was a British colonial policy and there has been no apology from the British Crown.
Cecil Campbell
Fuck I really want to move to Canada now.
Joe S
This is taking that whole “sorry” stereotype to a whole new level
Phil LeBlanc
I live with a group of native tribes and the stories are real. Graves of children at a native school torn down. This was an actual genocide disguised. Unless you see this and have a heart, you would cry also.
havingyarr
I’m sure this wasn’t a PR stunt at all.
Tanika iNsight
My world is surrounded by people who care about others pain, the planet and creating peace through seeing each culture as our brothers /sisters. Sending LOVE out to all the ppl here posting hate and division. Wow how it must be hard to live with all that negative energy in your body and heart. Shout out to all the ppl realizing that the great awakening is underway and are doing there part 💜 MORE LOVE hate can’t touch that VIBRATION
Elisa Nguyen
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Papito Don
Renew and respect that relationship. Meaning keeping the way it is And make it worse.
The Jurassic Jungle
Finally! It took the government this long!? Anyway, I’m still happy about this. 🙂

Response to Ministerial Statement: Burial site of Indigenous Children at Kamloops Residential School

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1 jun. 2021


Today I rose to response to the Ministerial Statement on the burial site of Indigenous children at Kamloops Residential School.

[Transcript]

I rise today to respond to this ministerial statement. Today my family and the entire B.C. Green caucus team stands with our relatives in the Interior. We wrap our arms around them in love. We share their tears, and we let them know that we’re here for them.

Today I stand in this House to honour those who lost their lives in the residential school system. The words that I’m going to speak today aren’t easy, and they are direct. Like many of my peers, my grandparents, my great aunties and uncles are survivors of Kuper Island Residential School. I know that they’d want me here today honouring the horrors that they lived through by demanding accountability for them.

The resounding story that I heard from Indigenous leaders this weekend is that this is the beginning. We know in our hearts this is the beginning. For the last several years, our Crown governments and society believes that it has been doing the work of reconciliation. After all, many of these stories have already been shared by residential school survivors through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

What needs to be addressed here is our response. Specifically, the urgency and our reaction to what has been and what is being uncovered. It’s not that we haven’t done anything. We’ve started the work. But have we really moved as quickly as you would expect after hearing these horrors?

We know that if these children were not Indigenous but rather European, that we would not have been slow to act. I see on social media my friends and colleagues sharing graphics agreeing that all children matter. Yet deep down, we know that in our society it’s just a fact: in Canada and British Columbia, some children matter less.

We know underneath the shiny, happy facade of Canada and British Columbia, there lurks a grotesque and shameful past. For 30 years, my relatives have been sharing their experiences from these despicable institutions. For 30 years, those stories have been hushed. Our relatives have been told that Canadians and British Columbians don’t want to hear their stories. They’ve been told to stop lying. They’ve been told to stop embellishing.

There was a statement from this institution that noted the “unimaginable proportions” of this tragedy. This is an incredibly unfortunate characterization of the situation that we carry. For Indigenous People, this story is not shocking nor is it “unimaginable.” This is the trauma our families have carried for generations.

When people ask me what our problem is, why don’t we pick ourselves up, they haven’t wanted to hear the answer. As we continue to grapple with missing and murdered Indigenous women and children, hanging red dresses in recognition of our current reality, what is uncovered in Kamloops is the stark reminder that this story line is not new. It has been in the imagination — indeed, in the nightmares — of our relatives for the past 130 years. It is the terror that our ancestors have lived with.

The only reason to call it “unimaginable” would be because these institutions, these Crown governments, federal and provincial governments, and the people that populate these chambers in the past either haven’t been listening to our stories, or they’ve cared less, because it is a reality in our country that some children have mattered less. These are both terrible considerations.

[2:05 p.m.]
There is nothing to imagine for those who have been paying attention. Our elders, our families, have been sharing the grim details of their experiences in residential schools for decades. That is the record of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You don’t have to imagine it. You just have to believe it and care enough to act with the urgency that you would if it was your child that didn’t return home from school. It’s your kids going to school. Not coming home. Not being there when their parents are there to pick them up.

Duncan Campbell Scott, deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932, is often associated with saying: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” Joseph Trutch, whose name is on a plaque right outside that door, British Columbia’s first Lieutenant-Governor following Confederation, is quoted as saying: “I think they are the ugliest and laziest creatures I ever saw, and we should as soon think of being afraid of our dogs as of them.” As historian Robin Fisher wrote extensively in “Joseph Trutch and the Indian Land Policy” of Trutch’s role in dispossessing Indigenous Peoples of their lands, he did it quite extensively.

 

[View the whole transcript at https://www.adamolsen.ca/2021/05/resp…]

Trudeau, MPs reflect on horrifying discovery at Kamloops residential school during debate

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2 jun. 2021

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reflected on the loss of 215 children whose remains were found at a former Kamloops residential school during a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday, saying that they “would have been elders, knowledge keepers and community leaders.”

The prime minister added that their loss was “the fault of Canada.”
Other members of parliament also spoke out about the discovery of unmarked burial sites at the former residential school, with Winnipeg MP Leah Gazan calling for these sites to be “treated as a crime scene.”

Liberal MP for Oakville North-Burlington pointed to Canada’s troubling past when it comes to the treatment of Indigenous people, stating that the country was “founded” on racism and colonialism.

Meanwhile, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller used some of his time to read out the names of some of the children known to have died at the former Kamloops residential school between 1900 and 1971.

Trudeau promises support for residential school survivors amid calls for action

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1 jun. 2021

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave few specifics, but promised more support for residential school survivors following the discovery of remains in B.C. But opposition parties are calling for the government to take meaningful action.
 
Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools, and those who are triggered by the latest reports.
 
A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.

Inside the Williams Lake residential school: Violation of Trust (1991) – The Fifth Estate

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11 feb. 2022

WARNING: This documentary includes distressing details and could be triggering for some viewers. Originally broadcast on Jan. 9, 1991, “Violation of Trust,” hosted by Gillian Findlay, is an in-depth examination of Canada’s residential school system and was, at the time, one of the first documentaries to reveal to a non-Indigenous audience the abuse students in the system endured. It’s important to note that some of the language used is outdated and would not be used today, nor would some of the assumptions about Indigenous people. 
 
The program focuses on St. Joseph’s Mission School, which operated from 1891 to 1981 in Williams Lake, B.C. Broadcast 10 years after the school closed, it provides what is likely the most complete visual overview of the grounds as they were when the school was in operation, an important historical record. The structures have since been demolished and in 2022, 93 potential burial sites, presumed to be the graves of children, were uncovered. 
 
We hear from survivors in the recent aftermath of their time at the school. Clergy who ran the school are asked directly about sexual abuse allegations, both personal and systemic. The term generational trauma was not yet in common use when this documentary was produced, but it nevertheless attempts to grapple with the lasting harm that the Canadian government and Catholic and Protestant churches caused Indigenous people in a system built on forced separation, assimilation and emotional, physical and sexual abuse. 
 
Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools and those who are triggered by the latest reports. A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419. 
 
You can watch our 2022 documentary on the Kamloops Indian Residential School, ‘The reckoning: Secrets unearthed by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc,’ here: https://youtu.be/m8wXExEHiS8
 
About The Fifth Estate: For four decades The Fifth Estate has been Canada’s premier investigative documentary program. Hosts Bob McKeown, Gillian Findlay and Mark Kelley continue a tradition of provocative and fearless journalism. The Fifth Estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians — delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy.

Inside Story Americas – Revisiting a dark chapter in Canada’s history


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17 mrt. 2013

The country’s Indian residential schools have long been a source of shame, but will a new report shed new light on them? To discuss this, Inside Story Americas is joined by guests: Kimberly Murray, the executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of Canada; Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada; and Frank Wallace, who represents the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and attended a residential school himself.

 

sleephearthealer
First Nations are my brothers and sisters. From your sister in New Zealand I am Maori and I think your culture is beautiful and a lot like mine. I love your connection to mother earth and to our animal family. I always admired your beauty from a far but I never knew of this torture that your people have endured through these schools. I knew of the mass genocide but not of this which is still in my own lifetime. I find it disgusting because I see you as myself and your children as my own nephews and neices and it would kill me if this happened to my family. I am sorry for your treatment. You have not deserved it before, now or ever. As for Jethro, you dick, before you start criticizing a people that has been so attacked and tortured and bashed down from the arrival of the European, French, whoever came first? Stop looking up your own ass and walk in the shoes of these people. Has all of your generations before you had to endure being exterminated like the cockroaches you speak of? Has your grandparents, parents been abused as little children whether mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. Do you not think that their children would somehow pay the consequences from a people whose culture has been torn from them and their children abused. You are a strong people I don’t care what anyone says and I thank God for Kevin Annet and his role in helping uncover the treachery of the church that was supposed to love and protect all the beautiful children. May God free you from the chains that have held you so long, the government that is accountable for soo many things. May you be able to heal and love and live and be happy. Love and light from my heart to you all. Ma te Atua.
Noah Yaworowski
my grandma and grandpa went to residential school. my grandma didn’t get it as bad in Edmonton but my grandpa got slapped around lots. Its very sad to se some people make mean comments about our culture
Nativemother Pocha
Truely amazing the small minds of people

Canada must ‘own up to its past’ for horrors at residential schools MPP Sol Mamakwa tells the legisl

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31 mei 2021

An emotional MPP Sol Mamakwa speaks about the terrible loss and sorrow felt after the bodies of 215 children were discovered at a former residential school in British Columbia, and says the government must own “its role in the horror it created.”
 
ApplePotato
It is news because no one thought how bad it was. If 215 bodies was found only at one school how many more bodies will they find at other residential schools.
 
KJ Hocken
It’s a lot more than a dark chapter. It has been a never ending nightmare for First Nations People’s.
 
Greg E
someone else does too… “Despite direct requests, the Catholic Church has steadfastly refused to formally apologize for abuses that occurred within the residential schools under their charge in Canada. In 2018, Pope Francis rejected a direct appeal for an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”

1 Remains of 215 children found at closed Canada indigenous boarding school

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29 mei 2021

The remains of 215 children have been discovered on the grounds of a former boarding school set up more than a century ago to assimilate Canada’s indigenous peoples, according to a local tribe. https://str.sg/3ksJ

2 How some children at the Kamloops residential school died


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7 jun. 2021

WARNING: This video contains details some viewers may find distressing. CBC News has obtained information from survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School and death certificates regarding some children’s deaths — including suicides, escape attempts and some who drowned in a nearby river.
 
The National is CBC’s flagship nightly news program, featuring the day’s top stories with in-depth and original journalism, with hosts Adrienne Arsenault and Andrew Chang in Toronto, Ian Hanomansing in Vancouver and the CBC’s chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton in Ottawa.

3 Priest under fire for comments on Canadian residential schools and involvement of church

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25 jun. 2021


A Mississauga, Ont. priest is facing backlash from his community following comments he made about residential schools and the involvement of the Catholic Church.

Monsignor Owen Keenan told his parish that two-thirds of the country blames the church for the tragedies that occurred in residential schools. And then went on to suggest others would thank the church, for the “good that was done” in those schools.

The comments come as the country is in mourning for Indigenous communities. Last month the remains of 215 children were discovered at the former Kamloops residential school in B.C.

Anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of their residential school experience can access this 24-hour, toll-free and confidential National Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419

Morganne Campbell reports.

4 Regina archbishop would welcome papal apology for residential schools

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26 jun. 2021

Archbishop of Regina Donald Bolen says he would ‘profoundly welcome’ an apology from Pope Francis on Canadian soil, following the discovery of more unmarked gravesites in Saskatchewan.
 
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5 Investigation finds potential mass grave of Indigenous children in Canada

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3 jun. 2021

An investigation at a former boarding school for Indigenous children in western Canada has found a potential mass grave that could contain the remains of 215 children dating back decades. New York Times correspondent Ian Austen joins “CBSN AM” to discuss this story.
 
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6 Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors -FULL DOCUMENTARY


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25 okt. 2016

Wawahte is an educational documentary based on the book of the same title by Robert P. Wells, first published in 2012. It tells the story of Indian Residential Schools from the perspective of three of its survivors. 
 
This documentary is free to be screened for elementary and high school students. Author Robert Wells and producer John Sanfilippo are available for screenings and discussion. They can be contacted via the Wawahte website. www.wawahte.com

7 Hundreds of Unmarked Graves At Former Saskatchewan Residential School

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24 jun. 2021

Hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered at a former residential school in Saskatchewan. Mel sits down with the Chair of Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, Dr. Pamela Palmater, to talk about the devastating news.
 
Taylor Derrien
We need a nation wide investigation into every single residential school! These “discoveries” are horrific, but they aren’t shocking! Anything less than an empowered, fully financed, and independent investigation is crap!
 
Bruce Collis
This seems to happen every time you put high scoring narcissists and sociopaths in charge.
 
 
Code Vault
You can’t help them when you’re paid to look the other way.
RDV V
any site will have these. we’ve known about the thousands of kids that died at these schools for ages. It is surprising and embarrassing that these sites were not exhumed and documented much sooner. The truth needs to be meticulously studied and documented, so that we know the truth and so that no one can deny what took place.
William
It’s sad that she still has to be known as part of a school named after Ryerson.

8 Indigenous Communities: Surviving Canada


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17 nov. 2017

Some months ago, a University of Toronto professor specializing in Indigenous health was a guest on The Agenda. In the midst of one of her answers, she said something off topic but quite provocative: that the government of Canada was essentially keeping Indigenous people in crisis, in order to get unfettered access to the riches of their land. The Agenda assembles a panel to discuss this controversial idea.

9 Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools | Ginger Gosnell-Myers | TEDxVancouver

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25 jun. 2018

Ginger Gosnell-Myers, of Nisga’a and Kwakwaka’wakw heritage, is a policy expert, researcher, and activist whose work focuses on removing barriers between Indigenous peoples and all Canadians while fostering cooperation through open communication. Ginger was the City of Vancouver’s first Indigenous Relations Manager, where she advanced Vancouver as the world’s first “City of Reconciliation”, and ensured that Indigenous recognition and meaningful inclusion was reflected throughout all City departments and plans. Ginger was a lead on the Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study, Canada’s largest research study on Indigenous people’s living in urban centers. She has held key roles in Greenpeace Canada, the Inspirit Foundation, the Urban Native Youth Association, and the Assembly of First Nations. Ginger’s ultimate goal is to advance reconciliation and promote understanding of Vancouver as an unceded territory. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

10 – 84-year-old survivor of Kamloops residential school: ‘There was rumours of a graveyard’

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31 mei 2021

Former Kamloops Residential School student Emma Baker reflects on the time she spent at the facility after a mass grave was uncovered.
 
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11 SLEEPING CHILDREN AWAKE (Full Version) (©1991)

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29 jun. 2016

Sleeping Children Awake (SCA) was shot in 1991 and televised in 1992. It was one of the earliest independant, feature length documentaries to be broadcast on the crucial subject of the Residential School System . SCA won several awards including “Best Canadian Documentary 1993” (CanPro) and was screened at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s national events held in Winnipeg, Manitoba 2010, and Saskatchewan 2012.

The entire documentary is posted here, and also in 6 segments. Click on the ” see all ” in the upload area to view them !
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Residential Schools operated in Canada from the 1800’s until 1996. These schools were a primary weapon of the government and the missionaries in their attempt to systematically destroy Native culture. Generations of First Nations people have been scarred from the affects of that policy.

Grand Chief Phil Fontaine (a residential school survivor) said, “The first step in healing is disclosure.”

In this spirit, “Sleeping Children Awake” illuminates the voices of the many former residents and their families, including Elijah Harper (M.P.) and the late Art Solomon ( Elder, Author).

These recollections and experiences are bridged with dramatic excerpts from Shirley Cheechoo’s autobiographical play, “Path with No Moccasins”. Shirley shares an emotional account of her experiences in residential school, a subsequent destructive lifestyle and her journey back into wholeness.

The documentary features the songs of Maria Linklater and artwork of various accomplished artists.

“Sleeping Children Awake” is both a personal record of this nations’ history and a tribute to the enduring strength of Native Cultures.

The full quality DVD is available by contacting: www.magicarrowproductions@gmail.com

AWARDS FOR SLEEPING CHILDREN AWAKE:
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American Indian Film Festival:
Selected for Screening San Francisco, California 1993

Dreamspeaker’s Festival Award of Recognition:
An International Aboriginal ,Culture, Arts and Film Festival Edmonton, Alberta 1994

Can Pro Award:
Best Canadian Documentary 1993

Canadian Association of Broadcasting:
Gold Ribbon Award Finalist in Public Affairs 1993

Iris Awards:
Finalist- Combating Racism / Religious Intolerance 1993

Truth And Reconciliation Commission Of Canada:
Selected for Screening at the National Event ,
Winnipeg, Manitoba 2010, Saskatchewan 2012

SLEEPING CHILDREN AWAKE (Full Version) (©1991) – Blog

12 Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentaries

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14 jun. 2017

Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentary

In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant “Canadian” culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or forcibly removed from their homes

Residential schools were part of an extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.

Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, was “picked up” and taken to the school along with four other children as they walked along a public road to visit his grandmother.

I’m ashamed to say I’m Canadian because of what my government has done.

Ron Short, former RCMP officer

“They didn’t put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that,” he explains. “It was in the routine of the place.

“You didn’t speak anything but English. You went to the white man’s school. You went to the white man’s church. You wore white mens’ clothes. All those were built in. It wasn’t a classroom-type lecture. It was ingrained in the system.”

In 2008, the Canadian government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which finally enabled survivors to give their testimonies on life in the residential schools. Abuse – mental, physical and sexual – was rife and, although research and statistics vary, it is estimated that 6,000 children died in these schools. Some evidence puts the casualties at three times that number.

After its formation, the TRC travelled around Canada for six years, gathering testimony from thousands who bore witness to the tragedies of the residential schools. Numerous “Aboriginal healing” programmes were put in place to help those affected to move on with their lives.

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13 FULL STORY: Failing Canada’s First Nations Children

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Canadian kids from isolated communities forced to move away from their families – just to go to school. For more info, please go to www.global16x9.com.
 
Shawnda Mamakwa
4 years later, I was told to come check out the comments. Spent half hour reading them. I’m doing very good incase anyone was wondering, I graduated high school in 2019, 12 days after giving birth to my son🤗 I was also Valedictorian. It was a great year for me! One day i’m gonna go back out for college and study welding and recreation. I love doing hands on work and working with the youth, its a bond that i’ll never want to break, they’re our future. Thank u all.
 
this juice
This qualifies as a human right’s violations. This should be brought to the worlds attention.
 
 
G Lewis
So nothing has really changed, still taking the kids away from their families with disastrous results … still treating them as “savages” when in reality the real “savages” are those who created their predicament. Money is not the solution, first one needs to repair the heart & the mind of these damaged people, I feel for them.
Kristina Fox
This makes my heart hurt. These are Canadians, just like me. They deserve every right I have- education, safety, security, jobs, and family.
 
Sweet Native Rain
As a native american, this made me cry for these kids. Our precious indigenous youth. I grew up with racism and bigotry, growing up in Oregon- from kids & teachers. So did both my kids.
 
Celeste DayRider

14 Crimes against children at residential school: The truth about St. Anne’s – The Fifth Estate 

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St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Northern Ontario was a place of horrific abuse and crimes against children that took place over decades. For years, records detailing the abuse were kept hidden — from survivors who needed them for their compensation claims. In Reconciliation Betrayed: The Horrors of St. Anne’s, we show how CBC News obtain thousands of those very documents which expose the fuller picture of the abuse than was previously acknowledged. To read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5039150

15 Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline

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The history of residential schools in Canada can be traced as far back as the 17th century. Watch the “Residential Schools in Canada Timeline” video to learn about the significant dates in its history — from the landing of Jesuits in what is now known as Quebec, to the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report in 2015.

16 Residential Schools

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Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. Although the first residential facilities were established in New France, the term usually refers to the custodial schools established after 1880. Originally conceived by Christian churches and the Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to integrate them into Canadian society, residential schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples. Since the last residential school closed in 1996, former students have pressed for recognition and restitution, resulting in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement in 2007 and a formal public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008. In total, an estimated 150,000 First Nation, Inuit, and Métis children attended residential schools.

17 Reporting on Canada’s Brutal Treatment of Indigenous Children

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21 nov 2021
 

Dan Ming, Amanda Pisetzner, and Anya Zoledziowski discuss their experience reporting on Canada’s residential schools.

 

Canadian Boarding Schools: Canada’s Assault on it’s Native Population

 
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18 Stolen Children | Residential School survivors speak out

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How Residential Schools affected survivors and their children and grandchildren.
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19 My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild | Sheila Humphries | TEDxPerth

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“This story is not a pretty one” begins Sheila Humphries who, as a child, was taken from her parents and placed in an orphanage by authorities who thought they knew best. One voice of the stolen Generation, Sheila, with many other indigenous Australian children, suffered cruelty and neglect that has shaped her as an adult, for good and for ill. The effects are still writ large on Sheila’s life and it’s a part of Australian history we must never forget.
 
Sheila will soon publish her autobiography, Silent Tears. 
 
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Random Rapper
Oh Aunty, I cried and cried listening to you telling the tragic story of your childhood. I’m still crying now. I wish I could take away all the pain. My late mum was brought up as a white girl. Her true heritage was stolen from her. Her white mother forbade her going into the sun, and when she accidentally got darker in summer Nana tried to strangle her. Nana was always so cruel to my mum. Her niece saved her life. Mum didn’t know she was Aboriginal until just before she died 10 yrs ago. The white relatives thought it was time she knew. It sure answered many questions for us. And now I’m lost. You are a beautiful woman, Aunty, your husband must have been a very good man, and you certainly deserved to have been married to him 🖤💛❤️
Gemma V
Anyone who says indigenous Australians need to get over these horrors need to watch this. This happened to people’s parents and grandparents! I just want to say thank you to all indigenous Australians for staying strong and using your voices to educate the rest of us xx
 
Jason H.
Australia has so much to apologise for. It took 200 years to create this mess, let’s hope it doesn’t take 200 years to sort it out.

20 Why are Indigenous women missing in Canada?

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10 jan. 2018

Canada and Australia share a dark secret: in recent decades thousands of Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing. What can Australia learn from Canada’s attempts to address the problem?
 
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heidi gibbons
So heartbreaking that a mother must search for her daughters bones since the police won’t help.
Olivia Maria
4000 Canadian indigenous women and girls missing. No closure for the parents and relatives. Jennifer Catcheway missing for 9 years. No statements were taken by the police and no actions taken. Why not reopen these crimes? The prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau willing to help other immigrants from other countries, why not help the native Canadians instead? With jobs, housing etc makes you wonder???? Name and shame these so called Johnnys too.
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This is bigger than anyone could imagine. There are just too many women and girls going missing.

21 The Catholic Church: Power and abuse of power? | To The Point

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10 jun. 2021

The highly influential German Cardinal Reinhard Marx offered his resignation to Pope Francis, citing “the catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials.” However the Pope turned the offer down. Meanwhile, shock and grief in Canada, after graves of indigenous children are discovered at a former Catholic-run school. So we ask: The Catholic Church: Power and abuse of power?

22 “There Are Many Others”: 215 Bodies Found at Canadian Residential School for Indigenous Children

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1 jun. 2021

The Canadian government is facing pressure to declare a national day of mourning after the bodies of 215 children were found in British Columbia on the grounds of a school for Indigenous children who were forcibly separated from their families by the government. The bodies were discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which opened in 1890 and closed in the late 1970s. Over the span of a century, more than 150,000 Indigenous children were separated from their families and sent to residential schools to rid them of their Native cultures and languages and integrate them into mainstream Canadian society. “These children are just some of the children who died in these schools,” says Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. “There are many others in unmarked graves across the country.” In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded that residential schools were part of “a conscious policy of cultural genocide” against Canada’s First Nations population.
 
Indigenous people all over the world are suffering and have suffered in similar ways due to colonialist ways. This must stop.
 
Mr. R
The more we learn about the earlier Europeans, and their colonization, the more we understand they were not the “enlightened ones” western history professes them to be. Conveniently leaving out theft, murder, and lies.
Collective Insanity
The catolic church again showing its true colors…
 
Warren Dourond
They talk about this like it was ancient history! Many of the priests and nuns responsible for putting these kids in the ground, are still alive and likely abusing children. We don’t want apology, we want justice!
 
aerti shipper
those residential schools are literally concentration camps in every way

23 I Am Not a Number

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The true story of the author’s grandmother’s harrowing experience when she and her brothers were taken from their community of Nipissing First Nation to live at a Canadian Residential School in 1928. By Jenny Kay Dupuis and Cathy Kacer. Illustrated by Gillian Newland

24 Canada: Hundreds of graves found at Indigenous boarding school

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24 jun. 2021

Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, Canada. Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewa said they have likely found 751 unmarked graves. “This is not a mass gravesite. These are unmarked graves,” he said in a news conference on Tuesday.
Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations said the discovery, coupled with the recent discovery of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School shows “genocide” committed by Canada.

25 Canada finds more graves at former school for indigenous children as China calls for rights probe

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25 jun. 2021

Unmarked graves of up to 751 people have been found near a former Catholic residential school in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan, in the second such shock discovery in less than a month. The June 24, 2021, discovery at the Marieval Indian Residential School was announced just two days after China called for a human rights investigation by the United Nations into the previous case where remains of over 200 indigenous children were found at the defunct Kamloops Residential School in the western province of British Columbia. Beijing’s call for a UN human rights probe sparked an angry response from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and prompted Ottawa to call for an investigation into Beijing’s alleged mass detention of Uygur Muslims in China’s remote Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

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26 – 215 Indigenous Children Graves Discovered: Facing Canada’s Residential School Legacy | The Agenda

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4 jun. 2021

In light of the discovery of the remains of 215 children on the site of a former Kamloops residential school in B.C., we look at the historical context, the call to unearth additional sites, and discuss what Canada has to do to not only reconcile its harmful past treatment of Indigenous people but revisit policies that continue to harm them.

27 Facing Canada’s Residential School Legacy

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4 jun. 2021

What is the historical path to the discovery of the remians of 215 children on the grounds of a former Kamloops resdiential school, and how can Canada reconcile with its past and move forward without causing further harm? Then, Bob Joseph discusses his book, “Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality.”

28 The Indian Act Explained

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8 mei 2018

Since 1876, the Indian Act has structured the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples with profound repercussions. And though the act is well known, its detailed contents may not be. The Agenda welcomes Bob Joseph, founder of Indigenous Corporate Training, a firm specializing in cultural relations instruction, to discuss his book, “21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality.”

29 The Indian Act: What to do with it

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31 mei 2019

Created more than 150 years ago, the Indian Act has structured relations between the federal government and Indigenous people for generations. And in the eyes of many, its purpose was and still is, to assimilate, control, and even destroy the people and communities that come under its jurisdiction. In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to scrap it. That hasn’t happened. The Agenda discusses what should be done about the archaic legislation.
 
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30 Understanding Aboriginal Identity

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1 mei 2015

Understanding Aboriginal Identity explores the complex issue of self-identification for Aboriginal people. Today, Aboriginal identity remains inextricably linked with past government legislation and the continued stereotyping of Aboriginal people in the media and Canadian history. From a Metis farm in rural Alberta to the offices of Canada’s leading scholars, Understanding Aboriginal Identity examines the factors that shape who we are.
 
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31 Canadian Aboriginals: In or Out?

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17 jan. 2012

The Agenda examines whether Aboriginal Canadians can better improve their lives by participating in Canadian politics or avoiding it.

32 Hidden children

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28 okt. 2016

Some Indigenous parents saved their children from residential schools by sending them into hiding. Now grown, one woman has been reunited with the family that saved took her in.
 
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33 Reconciling to a Hard Truth

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A historic settlement agreement promised closure for residential school survivors. But no one thought it would open the floodgates to thousands of new abuse claims.

Edited by Ian Daffern
Narrated by Harvey Gold
Photos by The United Church of Canada Archives
Additional photos by Canadian Press and Richard Wright
Music provided by Joshua Cipolla/ RevoStock
Produced by Kevin Spurgaitis

Sources: Observer files, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Assembly of First Nations, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, The United Church of Canada, United Church Publishing House, Statistics Canada, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Toronto Star and the CBC
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34 A Journey of Discovery, Truth and Reconciliation | Cecelia Reekie | TEDxLangleyED

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Cecelia Reekie shares her very personal journey of adoption, reunion, learning and understanding residential schools and reconciliation. Cecelia reminds us that every child has a story and we need to take the time to discover their stories. Cecelia dedicates this talk to all her parents.

Cecelia Reekie is a member of the Haisla First Nation. Cecelia has been involved in Langley Schools for many years, from being involved with Parent Advisory Council’s to serving as a Trustee on the Board of Education from January 2011 – November 2014, and now is a Cultural Presenter with the School District’s Aboriginal Program. Cecelia has an important and poignant story to tell as a child of survivors of Canadian Residential Schools. Cecelia is married and a mother of two sons!

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35 Witness to murder at Indian Residential School

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Irene Favel describes in a CBC interview (July 8, 2008) how she witnessed the murder of a baby by staff at the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School, run by the Roman Catholic Church in Lestock, Saskatchewan.

This segment of the interview is no longer available on the CBC archives.

(Sorry about the shoddy visual quality and the camera moving away from the screen. I’m uploading it anyway because of the importance of what this woman describes: deliberate murder at a residential school, something that has never gone to any court in Canada and yet something that has been recounted by hundreds of survivors. The lawyers won’t go there as it implicates the Crown, whom they are sworn to defend above all…)

36 Pope under mounting pressure for residential schools apology

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The CBC’s Megan Williams reports from Vatican City on the Catholic Church’s response so far to a demand for an apology over the church’s role in Canada’s residential schools. A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for survivors and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.
 
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37 Some of the priests and nuns who ran residential schools are still alive: Cameron

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FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron says that some of the priests and nuns who ran residential schools are still alive and should be held accountable.
 
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38 ‘This is not just neglect, this is a coverup’: native studies professor

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25 jun. 2021

Niigaan Sinclair, a columnist with the Winnipeg Free Press and an associate professor of native studies at the University of Manitoba says the fact that the Catholic church consciously removed the headstones from grave sites at the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan indicates criminality and shows that what happened was a coverup.
 
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39 Reconciliation won’t happen ‘until Canadians know everything’: Mi’kmaq lawyer

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25 jun. 2021

Pam Palmeter a Mi’kmaq lawyer at Ryerson University in Toronto says the discovery of unmarked graves by the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan further illustrates the need for Canada to confront this part of its history. Until it does, she said, meaningful reconciliation will not be attained.
 
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40 Why this survivor keeps a brick from her former residential school


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25 jun. 2021

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Canada’s residential schools may seem like a piece of history to some but for survivors like CBC reporter Kerry Benjoe, what happened needs to be kept alive. Many survivors keep bricks from the institutions as tangible reminders of the trauma they left behind.

41 Hunger experienced in residential schools linked to present-day health problems

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Hunger experienced by those growing up in residential schools has been linked to health problems in adult survivors, new research shows.

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42 The legacy of Quebec Indian Residential Schools


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Sonia Bisht
It’s not legacy but disgrace. Murders of innocent children’s.
 

43 Sask. First Nation says 751 unmarked graves found at former residential school

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WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The Cowessess First Nation announced that as many as 751 unmarked graves had been found at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme says oral stories within the First Nation say both children and adults were buried there.
 
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44 Indian Boarding School Abuse

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Lakota woman Joanne Tall describes the abuse she received as a 12 year old girl in a “christian” boarding school.

45 FULL EPISODE: ‘VeraCity: Unrepentant’ investigating abuse in the Canadian Catholic Church

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21 okt. 2020

‘VeraCity: Unrepentant’ is a Citytv original documentary uncovering the secret history of child sexual assaults that was kept silent by an order of Canadian Catholic priests. Taking the hunt for accountability all the way to Vatican City.
 
 

46 Non-indigenous residential school survivor speaks about his childhood at St. Anne’s

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23 sep. 2018

Ron Gosbee isn’t Indigenous, but as a child, he attended a residential school. He describes what life was like attending St. Anne’s, in northern Ontario, with white skin.
 
 
 
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47 Perverted Nun Prank

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Even nuns need something sexy in their lives. This cute old nun ask for directions and lets her collection of sexy male model photos drop to the ground. People try to return her photos to her but are shocked at what they find. Some are even too embarrassed to return the photos and decide to leave them on the ground. Such prudes! 

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