Exploring Theme: "Residential School Records"

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...

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,”...

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),...

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...

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...

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...