Kamloops Indian Residential School

Before the sun broke through the sky on Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way.

Geraldine Shingoose was shocked when she opened a report probing what should be done to protect potential unmarked grave sites at former residential schools for Indigenous children.

Raymond Frogner says when he found images of residential school students in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate archives in Rome, he knew he was looking at something important.

Many communities are reimagining Canada Day celebrations to recognize Indigenous Peoples, as the country continues to reckon with its legacy following the discovery of possible unmarked graves at former residential schools.

An unmarked burial ground at the former Kamloops, B.C. residential school set off a reckoning for Canadians about their country's history and relations with Indigenous Peoples, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, May 23, 2022.

Percy Casper, 73, spent 10 years as a child at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

The government's response to it — led by remarks that were repeatedly revised — would lead to the resignation of a cabinet minister, would prompt veiled criticism of then-premier Brian Pallister from government caucus members and may have hastened Pallister's departure from the premier's office.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it is still waiting for records from the federal government related to residential schools, despite a comment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that all federal records have been provided.

Senior members of a British Columbia First Nation have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that petitions him to formally commit to seven steps he could take to show he is serious about reconciliation.

Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said Justin Trudeau's visit Monday is a chance to move forward, even as she publicly rebuked the prime minister for ignoring her first invitation to join the community to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Jagmeet Singh made the campaign's first stop in an Indigenous community with a visit to the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, which announced in June a preliminary finding of 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.

A six-week, 2,000-kilometre walk to honour children and survivors of residential schools that began in Yukon ended on Monday, August 9, 2021, in Kamloops, B.C., "ground zero for where the truth broke out," says the man behind the Warriors Walk for Healing Nations.

A residential school in Manitoba known for harsh discipline and fatal runaway attempts has been the focus of a large-scale, years-long investigation into sexual abuse allegations.

The Lower Kootenay Band in British Columbia's southern Interior says a search using ground-penetrating radar has found the remains of 182 people in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school.

"How do you explain to a little girl that her people were kidnapped and incarcerated at schools where they were beaten for speaking their parents’ language, told their gods were devils and taught to hate themselves?" asks columnist Julian Brave Noisecat.