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March 31, 2024
Why Indigenous people are fighting for data sovereignty
Indigenous data sovereignty means that communities have control over their own information, researcher says Unreserved 54:00 Indigenous Data Sovereignty Data tells a story, and that’s why survivors of the notorious Mohawk Institute – Canada’s longest running residential school – are reclaiming data and sharing their truths. This week Rosanna speaks with Indigenous people who are reclaiming...
October 26, 2023
Senate Committee shocked by difficulties faced gathering residential school records from Catholic Church
“Who specifically asks for a 21-year NDA? Who within their organization needs to die within that 21 years that is being protected?” — Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson Windspeaker.com: Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson didn’t mince words when she spoke to members of the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples Oct....
October 17, 2023
Delorme hopes to bridge the gap between government and witnesses for residential school records
Cadmus Delorme, former chief of the Cowessess First Nations and now chair of the Residential Schools Documents Advisory Committee Windspeaker.com: Cadmus Delorme has been tasked with bringing the “worldviews” of the Canadian government and Indigenous survivors together when it comes to identifying and acquiring all relevant records for Indian residential schools. “No one’s opposing this,”...
September 21, 2023
Centre for Truth and Reconciliation still waiting for residential school records to be submitted, hears Senate
“It sounds to me like this might take quite considerable time, some number of years for this (documents advisory) committee to do its work,” —Senator David M. Arnot. Chair of the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples Mi’kmaw Senator Brian Francis. Windspeaker.com: It took referencing a dozen different sources to identify children who died at St....
July 20, 2023
Senate committee demands to know why all residential school records have yet to be turned over
“Every time an announcement of anomalies, reflections or recoveries are made, communities are being inundated by people emailing or phoning them to attack them and saying, ‘This didn’t happen’.” — Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray Senator Brian Francis Windspeaker.com: Senate Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples chair Senator Brian Francis calls a report released July 19 a...
September 29, 2022
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Calls for the Release of all outstanding residential school records
First People’s Law: The Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) has sent an open letter to federal Cabinet Ministers calling on their support for the full public release of outstanding residential school records currently being withheld by the Catholic Church and other orders of government. Following calls from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR),...
April 25, 2022
Federal IRS records
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: “Recently, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada officials were made aware of a third-party secure storage locker in the Northwest Territories that contained claimant documents from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) Independent Assessment Process. The storage locker belonged to a not-for-profit organization that provided health supports to...
December 6, 2021
Federal IRS Records
APTN – Crown-Indigenous Relations minister says the federal government will soon release some of the residential school records it’s been criticized for withholding to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation NCTR). Among the missing records, it said, were what’s known as school narratives – reports compiled by Ottawa outlining an individual institution’s history, including...
October 19, 2021
Federal IRS Records
NCTR – In his statement yesterday at Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc, the Prime Minister indicated that the Government of Canada has handed all records on residential schools to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). Unfortunately, this is not accurate. At present, we are still waiting for Canada to provide the final versions of school...
October 19, 2021
National Council is still waiting for federal government to hand over residential school records
NCTR – In his statement yesterday at Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc, the Prime Minister indicated that the Government of Canada has handed all records on residential schools to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). Unfortunately, this is not accurate. At present, we are still waiting for Canada to provide the final versions of school narratives...
June 11, 2021
Misleading Update Information
The Official website of the Federal Government: “Delivering on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action” stated that the content had been “Modified” when in fact not a single work had changed from the previous update posted on Sept, 5, 2019. Those updates, beginning on June 7 began just 11 days after the discovery...
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