A 2015 report said the schools were a component of "cultural genocide." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the recent discovery of more than 200 bodies in the grounds of what was the ...

182 human remains were found by a former boarding school for Indigenous kids. For decades, beginning in the 1800s, thousands of Indigenous peoples from Canada were taken from their homes and families ...

In May 2021, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history ...

Francis, responding to longtime pleas from Indigenous people, begged forgiveness for schools where children were forced to assimilate, many were sexually or physically abused and some died. By Jason ...

Speaking at a former residential school south of Edmonton, Alberta, the 85-year-old pontiff asked the Indigenous community for "forgiveness" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for ...

Installation view of "The Ancestors Are Talking" at The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Alberta. Joseph M. Sánchez (b. 1948) found his way to western Canada in 1970. He’d spent the past ...

The finding, announced by the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, comes from one of several searches underway at former Indigenous schools across Canada. By Ian Austen OTTAWA — An Indigenous group ...

Many of Wahéhshon Whitebean’s family members attended Canada’s residential schools—largely Catholic-run institutions designed to erode Indigenous culture and that were rife with abuse. So Pope Francis ...

DOCKLANDS, Australia-- When the Kaurna Boomerangs left Adelaide, Australia, in January of 2020, bound for a hockey tour against First Nations teams in Northern Alberta, it was a bit of a shock to the ...

OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's federal government and a group of Indigenous people have reached a revised C$23.34 billion ($17.35 billion) agreement to compensate First Nations children and ...

The exhibition explores how the ocean has shaped and influenced Indigenous communities living along its edges in western ...