By Jim Windle In Part III of “Ungodly Alliance” we investigate more documentary evidence which was known by both the church and state on abuses…
WARNING: This story has disturbing details about residential and boarding schools including The Mohawk Institute (aka) The Mush Hole. The immediate source of this story…
By Jesse Popp, Assistant Professor, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, School of Environmental Studies, University of Guelph Although a wide diversity of world views exist,…
By Anna Stanley, Adjunct professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph Noront Resources Ltd. — the company at the heart of Ontario’s…
New program from Six Nations Justice Department Note: The western word Offender has been changed to Harmer and the Victim will become the Harmed. There…
By Chadwick Cowie, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University The question of Indigenous participation in Canada’s elections is repeatedly in the news. Nunavut…
By Jodi John, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Ontario; Angela Mashford-Pringle, Assistant Professor/Associate Director, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, University of…
By Sean Carleton, Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba and Andrew Woolford, Professor, Sociology & Criminology, University of Manitoba …
By Massimiliano Orri, Assistant Professor, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University and Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Assistant…
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history, began in 2007. One of the elements of the agreement was the…
The federal election is hurtling towards Canadians and the casualties will once again be the First Nation peoples. It is impossible for First Nations to…
By Shauna MacKinnon, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, University of Winnipeg and Kathy Mallett, Indigenous activist and community research partner…
By Robert Jago In my family, the older aunts and uncles tell a story about “the oven baby”. “That was Maryanne” my aunt June tells…
By Lisa Howell, PhD Candidate, part-time professor, Faculty of Education, L’Universite d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Kiera Brant-Birioukov, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada, and…
For the past six years, Geraldine Shingoose has been sharing her truths as a residential school survivor — or warrior as she prefers to be…