Residential schools

After travelling Canada for seven years, gathering witness accounts of Indian residential schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has written its final report and is wrapping up its work. But the work of sharing that truth with the rest of Canada is just beginning.

"LOOKING UNTO JESUS'' At Kuper Island Residential School the brothers and fathers and sisters are trying to take out all the Indian out of them make them follow '' white people rules'' do only '' white people things''.

These picture books help teach about Indian Residential Schools, which is foundational to understanding Canada as it is today.

Alongside 94 recommendations, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a volume of harrowing tales some survivors shared about their time at residential schools.

With the discovery of human remains on the grounds of residential schools, this history is now dominating the conversation in the country.

The head of Canada's national archive dedicated to Indian residential schools says the voices of 40,000 survivors would be silenced if a judge orders their testimony destroyed.

Survivors of schools in the US spoke with scholars about their experiences of cruelty, neglect, and cultural degradation.

Generations of First Nations children were abducted to institutions to solve the country’s ‘Indian problem’. Thousands never returned

Residential school survivors in Kenora, Ont., who were the subject of nutritional experiments as children, will meet the man whose research brought their experiences to light.

Tens of thousands First Nation children died in residential schools DERRICK ON MARCH 30TH, 2014 7:41 AM – COMMENTS By Dene Moore The death records of tens of thousands of First Nations child…

The Canadian Government made Indian Residential Schools. Aboriginal children were sent there to remove the Indian from inside them and to help the government rid Canada of the Aboriginals. Theses schools were open all across Canada. The first residential school was opened in 1840 (Wikwemikong Indian Residential School) and the last closed in 1996 (St. Michael’s Indian Residential School). The schools were to help the Canadian government but just infuriated the Aboriginals of the present day.

Manitoba History: Methodist Indian Day Schools and Indian Communities in Northern Manitoba, 1890-1925

With the discovery of human remains on the grounds of residential schools, this history is now dominating the conversation in the country.

**Towana Miller** - Residential School

By Erin Hanson (2009), with updates and revisions by Daniel P. Gamez & Alexa Manuel (September 2020). The original version of this article has been archived, but may be accessed here. To cite this article, we have recommendations at the bottom of the page. Note on terminology: There is constant debate and reflection on the use […]

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children.

Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation says.

Star Blanket Cree Nation said a ground penetrating radar search has yielded over 2,000 hits at the former school site.