Category Archives: Residential Scools

48 books by Indigenous writers to read to understand residential schools

from the CBC 

 

David A. Robertson, a Cree author based in Winnipeg, writes books for readers of all ages. He has published 25 books across a variety of genres, including the graphic novels Will I See? and Sugar Falls, a Governor General’s Literary Award-winning picture book called When We Were Aloneillustrated by Julie Flett, and The Reckoner, a YA trilogy.

 

Source:

https://www.cbc.ca/books/48-books-by-indigenous-writers-to-read-to-understand-residential-schools-1.6056204?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR28woATv_VtiDhs0D6aAPQhIgBoLOxqdnIkJwzp5F_A6__ThSrkmz6RgIc

 

Pole Stands as Mother for Lost Children

from Ha-Shilth-Sa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: https://hashilthsa.com/

Ha-Shilth-Sa is Canada’s oldest First Nations newspaper and is the newspaper of record of the Nuu-chah-nulth people. It has been published by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council since 1974. Ha-Shilth-Sa means “interesting news” in the Nuu-chah-nulth language.

Ha-Shilth-Sa reports on the activities and initiatives of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, and provides a First Nations’ perspective on news from Vancouver Island, around the province and across Canada.

US Army to return remains of 10 Native American children to families | WITF

Aleut family members will return the remains of one child to Saint Paul Island in Alaska, and Rosebud Sioux descendants will take nine children back to a tribal veteran’s cemetery in South Dakota or to private family plots.

Source: US Army to return remains of 10 Native American children to families | WITF

Remains of 215 Indigenous children discovered at former Canadian residential school site

Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc said in a news release Thursday evening that the “stark truth” was unearthed last weekend with the help of a ground-penetrating radar specialist.

from The Washington Post

Source: Remains of 215 Indigenous children discovered at former Canadian residential school site