With a microphone in her hand at the Meadow Lake Civic Centre, Vitaline Read shared a story with school children, community members and other survivors of her time in the Beauval Indian Residential School. In the spring of 1951, Read had just completed her year at the school and was told by her auntie who was also at t...

Emile Highway, a decorated veteran and residential school survivor, can still remember the loneliness he felt as a young boy being in a strange place and the sole comfort that came with his older brother holding his hand.Highway was among the guest speakers during a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Mo...

OTTAWA - Residential school survivors say the federal government is keeping the truth about those institutions in the dark by cutting back on funding for records and ground searches looking for unmarked graves of children who died at the schools. More than 150,000 children were forced to attend residential schools, and...

Hundreds of students, elders, and community members turned out to Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate (MUCC) Friday for a community gathering for National Truth and Reconciliation Day. The event featured a presentation, a round dance featuring the drum group Digging Bear, and a walk from the school down Main St. ...

Traditional Indigenous rhythms echoed through the roof of Don Ross Centre on Friday night as First Nation community members gathered to embrace the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Through each resonant beat of the Hand drums, Redsky Trottier sought not just to sing but to heal."It is like light in my ch...

At the entrance to a grassy grove in Central Park, a little girl stood on a boulder wrapped in a star blanket. As the mid-morning sunlight gently dappled the leaves of the overhanging trees in gold, the girl - no older than seven - maintained a serene expression on her sculpted bronze face. Now, 110 years after the Bat...