Residential schools

As Canadian students return to class, educators are scrambling to add an important new element to the curriculum - the history and impact of residential schools.

In 1987, a Cree elder went looking for his brother’s final resting place after he never returned home from Red Deer Indian Industrial School. His quest is now a beacon in the search for residential school graves.

These picture books help teach about Indian Residential Schools, which is foundational to understanding Canada as it is today.

Generations of First Nations children were abducted to institutions to solve the country’s ‘Indian problem’. Thousands never returned

The Canadian province of Manitoba has apologised to indigenous families for decades of forced adoptions.

After travelling Canada for seven years, gathering witness accounts of Indian residential schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has written its final report and is wrapping up its work. But the work of sharing that truth with the rest of Canada is just beginning.

The bishops issued the apology at the end of their annual Plenary meeting.

The head of Canada's national archive dedicated to Indian residential schools says the voices of 40,000 survivors would be silenced if a judge orders their testimony destroyed.

After hearings earlier this year revealed the use of an electric chair as a punishment device for Native children at residential schools, we looked into the horrifying and torturous history of Canada's sick attempt to solve the "Indian Problem."

Healing the impacts of Residential Schools Between 1831 and 1996, residential schools operated in Canada through arrangements between the Government of Canada and the church. One common objective defined this period — the