Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Northwest Territories"

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October 26, 2022


GNWT releases report on history of NWT education facilities including residential schools, day schools and residences

To support the work of reconciliation and healing within Indigenous communities, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has released a report that provides a summary of educational facilities, including residential schools, day schools and residences, in the Northwest Territories (NWT) from 1862 to 2021. Sorting information by community, the Report on the History of NWT...

July 12, 2021


Sacred Heart Residential School

APTN – Fort Providence used ground-penetrating radar in ’90s to locate cemetery containing 300 bodies, of which 161 were kids who attended Sacred Heart Residential School in Zhahti Kue, also known as Fort Providence, N.W.T....

June 6, 2021


Commitment to work with Indigenous leaders about what happened at the 14 schools

CBC – The territorial government says it is willing to work with Indigenous leaders to get to the truth about what may lie underground in the territory’s many former residential school locations. In the Northwest Territories there were 14 residential schools, run by church or state. In some communities, work has already been done to understand the...

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