KAMLOOPS — An event planned for the Thompson Rivers University campus Wednesday (Nov. 12) has been declared unsanctioned and ...

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 ...

Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

In May of 2021, archaeologists discovered over 200 unmarked graves at an Indigenous residential school in Canada. The discovery exposed the dark history of systemic abuse faced by Canada's Indigenous ...

We’re still learning about the horrors of residential schools for Indigenous peoples. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Plymouth’s Steve Minton delves into this. Minton is an associate ...

Introduction -- Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been ...

The U.S. is acknowledging the large-scale and violent treatment of Indigenous students at more than 400 Indian boarding schools run by the federal government between 1819 and 1969, according to a ...

Re: “Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada” [July 24, Nation & World]: More than 350 similar Indigenous boarding schools existed in the U.S., including Washington. The time to ...

Many children died of disease or abuse and were buried on school grounds. Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families over a span of 150 years, made to live in boarding ...

The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a ...