Indian residential schools

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.

As Canadian students return to class, educators are scrambling to add an important new element to the curriculum - the history and impact of residential schools.

The residential and boarding schools in the US and Canada were places of nightmares for thousands of indigenous children, like the 215 found in a mass grave near British Columbia's Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Some paintings have become the defining images of a social or political catastrophe. But can art really shape the narrative of war and atrocity, asks Karen Burshtein.

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

'It wasn't a secret there were going to be deaths': An Indigenous studies professor at Simon Fraser University says many schools' architectural drawings included cemeteries.

Metis Survivors Of Residential Schools Still Waiting For Reconciliation...

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"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''.