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The Canadian Indian residential school system [nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children directed and funded by the Department of Indian Affairs. [2] Administered by various Christian churches and funded by the Canadian government from 1828 to 1997 Canadian Indian residential school system attempted to assimilate ...
The largest lecture hall on campus was subsequently named Wenjack Theatre in Wenjack's honour. On March 9, 2018, Trent University marked the official launch of the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies. [4] In 2016, the Gord Downie-Chanie Wenjack Fund was established to help with reconciliation between Canada and Indigenous peoples. [5]
Last month the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.
Tina Michelle Fontaine (1 January 1999 – c. 10 August 2014) [1] was a First Nations teenage girl who was reported missing and died in August 2014. [2] Her case is considered among the high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada, and her death renewed calls by activists for the government to conduct a national inquiry into the issue.
While Indigenous people make up 6 percent to 6.5 percent of Montana’s population, they account for 30.6 percent of missing persons cases. Out of the 2,263 reported missing in Montana last year ...
The Indigenous siblings aged from 11 months to 13 years survived the May 1 disaster that killed three adults and then wandered on their own in the jungle before being found alive by Colombian ...
The current Indigenous homicide rate in the state of Wyoming is higher than the national Indigenous homicide rate. In the years from 2000-2020, 105 Indigenous people were victims of homicide. 71 of them were male, and 34 females. [2] Indigenous people make up 21% of homicide victims in Wyoming, but make up only 3% of the state's population.
The men were convinced the children had survived. Day 39 was do or die — for the children and the search teams. Henry Guerrero, a volunteer who joined the search from the children's home village ...