The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 invites people across Canada to learn about the history and impacts of the residential school system.
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When deciding whether and how to respond to residential schools denialism, teachers should consider the type of denialism, the students involved and their school and community context.
To be Indigenous in Canada has often meant living under continuous observation.
When it comes to reconciliation in Canada, we need to remember that the colonial history encompasses many assimilation tactics and its impacts are ongoing.
We must hope Pope Francis’s apology was merely the beginning toward Catholic Church accountability and repair around residential schools.
When Pope Francis visited Canada in July 2022, he consciously and intentionally began a journey into the complex and disturbing relationship between the Catholic Church and Indigenous Peoples.
As people reflect upon Pope Francis’s passing, his apology on residential schools and its impacts needs to be explored three years after it was delivered.
Does virtual reality improve empathy? Findings from one study imply that Survivors’ meaningful stories don’t require sophisticated technology like virtual reality to have impact.
Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
Religion has been on the decline in Canada for years. Understanding how religion is viewed in society can help explain why.
The report focuses on unaccounted missing children, unmarked grave sites, and the roles of government and churches in the Indian Residential School genocide.
‘Brown Tom’s Schooldays’ was first self-published decades ago, and shows how one First Nations boy came of age and grappled with the assimilation agenda of Indian Residential Schools.
Although there is now a wide body of public information about residential schools, many people continue to have limited knowledge about them. That provides fertile ground for misinformation.
In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.
The election of Wab Kinew’s NDP in 2023 represents a powerful rejection of the racial politics of recent Conservative governments led by Heather Stefanson and her predecessor, Brian Pallister.
Some have claimed the proposed new Indigenous names for Winnipeg streets are too difficult to pronounce. But what does it mean when we say a word is hard to pronounce?
A recurrent theme in the testimonies of Residential School survivors is how their cultural and linguistic identities were adversely affected.
The Pope’s apology could mark a new way forward if the Catholic Church makes genuine reparations for the evils it perpetrated.
It is reasonable to expect that any apology from the Pope will be met with mixed responses.
Pope Francis and the Catholic Church must make a plan with Indigenous Peoples, not for us, in order to walk the path of reconciliation. Some initial suggestions of what a plan might include.
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream; June Callwood Professor of Social Justice; Special Advisor on Indigenous Initiatives, Victoria University, University of Toronto
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Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Lethbridge
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Distinguished Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Athabasca University
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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PhD Candidate in Education, University of New Brunswick
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Professor, History of Education, Queen's University, Ontario
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Director, Centre for Human Rights Research and Distinguished Professor, History and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba
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Elder in Residence, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Professor/Associate Director, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, University of Toronto
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Instructor in communication studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Carleton University
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Cherokee Nation citizen, Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English, University of British Columbia