Heeding calls from Indigenous people, some places have canceled plans to mark the holiday, after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at former boarding schools for Indigenous children.
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Indigenous People Want National Celebrations Called Off
Heeding calls from Indigenous people, some places have canceled plans to mark the holiday, after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at former boarding schools for Indigenous children.
With Discovery of Unmarked Graves, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Reckoning
Two gruesome discoveries of what Indigenous groups say are the remains of hundreds of children have strengthened the groups’ resolve to hold the country accountable for a long-hidden brutal history.
Hundreds More Unmarked Graves Found at Former Residential School in Canada
An Indigenous group said the remains of as many as 751 people, mainly children, had been found in unmarked graves on the site of a former boarding school in Saskatchewan.
In Canada, Another ‘Horrific’ Discovery of Indigenous Children’s Remains
An Indigenous group said the remains of hundreds of children had been found in unmarked graves on the site of a former boarding school in Saskatchewan.
Indigenous People Advance a Dramatic Goal: Reversing Colonialism
Fifty years of patient advocacy, including the shocking discovery of a mass burial site at Kamloops, have secured once-unthinkable gains.
Unmarked Graves at Residential Schools in Canada: What to Know
The discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at the sites of defunct schools in British Columbia and southern Saskatchewan has rekindled discussion of a sinister time in Canada’s history.
‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada
An Indigenous community says it has found evidence that 215 children were buried on the grounds of a British Columbia school, one of the many in Canada set up to forcibly assimilate them.
He Almost Quit the Law. Instead, He Reset Canada’s Indigenous Dialogue.
Murray Sinclair, who just retired from Canada’s Senate, led a truth and reconciliation commission that still shapes the national conversation.