Legend of Sugar Girl

To those who ask why Indigenous people don't just "get over" the residential school experience, Senator Murray Sinclair has this response: "My answer has always been: Why can't you always remember this?" Sinclair was speaking at one of The Current's public forum on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

The Witness Blanket, a large-scale art installation, weaves together hundreds of objects reclaimed from Indian Residential Schools and other important sites in Canada—to recognize the atrocities of the Indian Residential School era, honour the children, and symbolize ongoing reconciliation.

The Witness Blanket, Pieces of History, was on display from September 13—November 8 in Evered Hall, UFV Abbotsford campus.

Visvis examines how the novel Three Day Road challenges the Eurocentric view of World War I “by conceptualizing dimensions of trauma from a First Nations perspective, particularly through the figure of the Windigo, a cannibalistic human, monster, or spirit.” According to Visvis, Boyden employs the creature from Algonquian mythology to demonstrate how the First Nations people in his novel “are being consumed by the occurrence and effects of the First World War and by the European imperial culture that underscores it.”

McCall examines the differences and similarities between postcolonial and indigenous nationalist critical approaches through an analysis of Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) and Boyden’s Three Day Road. McCall argues that bringing the two approaches together to study novels that both feature portrayals of residential schools for indigenous people allows for an understanding of what ultimate reconciliation between white and indigenous cultures entails.

A digital archive of CBC's Residential Schools coverage.

Learn how the Government of Canada is working to advance reconciliation and renew the relationship with Indigenous peoples, based on recognition of rights, respect, cooperation and partnership.

West coast affiliate centre at UBC for the University of Manitoba National Research Centre repository of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents.

The Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation leads the B.C. Government in pursuing reconciliation with the First Nations and Indigenous peoples of British Columbia.

The permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In response to calls for action from Indigenous families, communities and organizations, as well as non-governmental and international organizations, the Government of Canada launched an independent National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in September 2016.

Born from the vision of Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, Gwawaenuk Elder, Reconciliation Canada is leading the way in engaging Canadians in dialogue and transformative experiences that revitalize the relationships among Indigenous peoples and all Canadians.

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Indian Residential School survivors, Aboriginal Elders, community members and other special guests joined UFV students, faculty, and staff in a day of presentations, interactive panels, films, readings and displays.

A general introduction to resources in the field of Residential Schools.

Mandated to learn the truth about what happened in the residential schools and to inform all Canadians about what happened in the schools.

First Nations and Indigenous Studies UBC.

For more than thirty years, the United Church and Indigenous peoples have been on a journey towards mutuality, respect and equity. Towards reconciliation. Towards justice.