Marie, Ont., to visit the graves of relatives who died at the Shingwauk residential school.Thompson had eight family members ...

When the whistleblower broke the news that hundreds of Indigenous children were dying from the “criminal disregard” of the Canadian government, the story was denied by the government, the ...

Thus far, 2,100 more children have been found at Indian residential schools throughout Canada. It should be noted that the United States had twice as many of the boarding schools . In fact, the ...

Canada needs to work toward documenting and researching all 130 residential school sites, he says. These sacred sites also need to be commemorated with the help of indigenous elders. “We have to ...

Either way, if Canada’s leaders believe a more residential schools-focused country is the right one, then that’s what Canada will be. Moral crusades are not usually negotiated. Read more: ...

After the remains of 215 children were found in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, Canada is grappling with one of the darkest chapters of its history.

Initially, about 1,100 students attended 69 schools across the country. In 1931, at the peak of the residential school system, there were about 80 schools operating in Canada.

MASKWACIS, AB — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced ...

Trudeau said the discovery of 215 children found buried at a former Indigenous residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, is part of a larger tragedy. The institutions held children taken ...

Canada’s Catholic bishops in September said they wished to “apologize unequivocally” for the role of Catholic groups in the residential school system, “which led to the suppression of ...

VATICAN CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - Survivors of Canada's residential schools on Monday asked Pope Francis to guarantee unfettered access to Church records on the institutions where indigenous ...

Canada has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, seeking compensation for the loss of language and culture brought on by Indian residential schools, for C$2.8 billion ($2.09 billion).