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October 24, 2023


Historic human bones found in landfill to be repatriated to First Nation

Remains were estimated to be 100 to 300 years old, says forensic anthropologist CBC Indigenous: Leaders of the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation in southwestern Ontario say they want ancestral remains that were discovered last week returned to the site where they were buried near Sauble Beach, so they can be recognized and protected as a burial.  The bones of three or four people were...

September 30, 2023


Step inside a residential school that’s being converted into a special space to honour survivors

WARNING: This video contains distressing details Step inside a residential school that’s being converted into a special space to honour survivors: Duration 4:31 Warning: This video contains distressing details. The former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont. is now part of the Woodland Cultural Centre. Staff there are working to turn the space into what...

June 11, 2023


‘Like doing a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle:’ How a long lost Wiikwemkoong diary found its way back home

Copy of 19th century log kept by Jesuit missionaries translated and published CBC News: A 19th century diary of events at Wiikwemkoong written by Jesuit missionaries is back where it started. Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory is on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario, the ancestral homelands of the Odawa, Potawatomi and Ojibway people also known as the Three Fires Confederacy. The...