Author encourages people to stand against residential school denialism

Author encourages people to stand against residential school denialism

Métis scholar Kristy McLeod is bracing for more hateful online comments when Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves hits the stores in mid-August. She wrote the book with Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad.

Survivors are gathering across Canada for residential school reunions. Here’s why

Survivors of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School gather at their first reunion in 1981. (Children of Shingwauk Association) Since he was a child, David Thompson has travelled for hours to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to visit the graves of relatives who died at the Shingwauk residential school.Thompson had eight family members attend the school and four who died while under the care of the staff there.