For a student to be accepted to a residential school, the parents needed to complete an application requesting enrollment for their child and send tha…
Many former residential school students have spoken publicly about the benefits they received from their Residential Schools experience.1 Some have sa…
The term “knowledge keeper” has become common in recent years in discussion of Indian residential schools (IRS), unmarked graves, and missing children…
The use of the terms “assimilation” and “integration” to describe the purpose of the Residential Schools system has declined in recent years, replaced…
All Canadian children suffered very high mortality before the twentieth century. From the early 1900s onward the Residential Schools were in the foref…
With both Pope Francis and the Canadian Parliament using the term “genocide” to describe Canada’s treatment of its Indigenous people, it is not surpri…
