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When is an honor not an honor?

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 18, 2021 | Boarding schools

When is an honor not an honor? by aTim Giago (Nanwica Kciji – Stands Up For Them) The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… South Dakota legislators appear to be in conflict with themselves. They are introducing a Concurrent Resolution to acknowledge and...

Witness to murder at Indian Residential School

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 14, 2021 | Boarding schools

This video is of an Indigenous woman, Irene Favel describing in a CBC interview (July 8, 2008) how she witnessed the murder of a baby by staff at the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School, run by the Roman Catholic Church in Lestock, Saskatchewan.

Hundreds Died at Northern Ontario Residential Schools

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 11, 2021 | Boarding schools

Hundreds Died at Northern Ontario Residential Schools by David Helwig |Dec 16, 2015 The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… Of 426 Ontario Indian residential school students known to have died from 1867 to 2000, 38 percent have been forgotten by history....

Discovering and Researching BIA School Records

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 11, 2021 | Boarding schools

Discovering and Researching BIA School Records by Cody White | October 23, 2019 The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… This presentation will discuss the records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding and day schools, looking at both individual...

Coalition confronts Christian boarding school trauma

by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 8, 2021 | Boarding schools

Coalition confronts Christian boarding school trauma by Cindy Yurth | April 3, 2014 The full article is here… Excerpt from the article… By the late 1860s, the U.S. government had expected to have the Indian problem well in hand. It had riddled the tribes with bullets,...