residential schools
Williams Lake First Nation to restore former residential school area on its own terms
March 27, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: brief descriptions of residential school violence and cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples, mentions of burial sites. “I grieve for all who never made it — the children who never made it home and for survivors and their families who could not keep carrying the pain.” These words come from Phyllis Webstad, member of the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (St-wet-lem hight-lem), founder of Orange Shirt Society, and survivor of the St. Joseph’s Mission Indian Residential School. Orange Shirt Society started Orange Shirt Day as a holiday “designed to commemorate the residential school experience, to…
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Residential school deniers show us colonialism is still rampant
June 17, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Content warning: mentions of unmarked graves, genocide, death, and abuse. When more than 200 unmarked graves were discovered at Kamloops Residential School in 2021, a movement to uncover the extent of residential school graves gained…
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Moose Hide Campaign Day combats violence against Indigenous women and children
May 30, 2024By: Hannah Fraser, News Writer Content warning: references to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and residential schools. May 16 was Moose Hide Campaign Day, a day organized by the “BC-born Indigenous-led grassroots movement to engage men and boys…
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Joe Sacco and Glen Coulthard discuss Paying The Land
November 7, 2022By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Joe Sacco’s new book Paying The Land illustrates and unfolds the stories of the Dane peoples that have lived in the Mackenzie River. Their land in the Northwest Territories has valuable resources and is a…
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Len Pierre delivers seminar calling for Indigenous cultural safety in higher education
September 13, 2022By: Chloë Arneson, News Writer On June 20, in honour of National Indigenous Peoples month, SFU Vancouver hosted a virtual seminar to discuss the importance of implementing Indigenous cultural safety in higher education. The Decolonizing Education and Institutionalising Indigenous Cultural…
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Truth and reconciliation: Tax the Church!
June 21, 2022By Chloë Arneson, News Writer In Canada, we’ve created a subsidy for an institution that carried out a genocide on our soil. A subsidy for an institution that, when more and more evidence of that genocide is uncovered, has to be…
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Cecelia Reekie discusses mourning in the Indigenous community after discovery at Kamloops
June 16, 2021Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Content warning: descriptions of residential school abuse, anti-Indigenous racism, and genocide The remains of 215 Indigenous children were found near a residential school in Kamloops on May 27, 2021. Their identities are not yet known.…
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