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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) | Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR)

Collected by: Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Archived since: Nov, 2015

Description:

Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission Web Archive provides access to archival copies of the websites of organizations connected with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), either as active partners at national events or through initiatives to support commemoration. The collection was curated in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg Library, the University of Manitoba Libraries, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). For more information, please see LAC’s TRC Web Archive website: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/Pages/truth-reconciliation-commission-web-archive.aspx. / Les archives Web de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) concernant la Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR) procurent un accès aux copies d'archives de sites Web appartenant à des organisations ayant un lien avec la CVR, soit en qualité de partenaires à part entière dans des événements nationaux ou par l'intermédiaire d'initiatives ayant pour but de soutenir la commémoration. La collection a été préparée et organisée en collaboration avec la bibliothèque de l'Université de Winnipeg, les bibliothèques de l'Université du Manitoba et le Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation (CNVR). Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter le site Web de BAC pour les archives Web concernant la CVR: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/decouvrez/patrimoine-autochtone/Pages/archives-web-commission-verite-reconciliation.aspx.

Subject:   Society & Culture

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Title: ‘Where I learned to fight and cheat and steal’: Six Nations wants to save longest-running residential school

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/where-i-learned-to-fight-and-cheat-and-steal-six-nations-wants-to-save-longest-running-residential-school/

Description: This article describes the former Mohawk Institute on Six Nations territory near Brantford and the community's fight to preserve Canada's longest-running residential school.

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Title: âpihtawikosisân

URL: http://apihtawikosisan.com/

Description: The personal blog of Metis writer and educator Chelsea Vowel, who blogs about education, aboriginal law, and the Cree language, and includes entries on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Title: Wynne apologizes on behalf of Ontario for ‘brutalities’ suffered in residential schools

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/wynne-apologizes-on-behalf-of-province-for-brutalities-suffered-in-residential-schools/

Description: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne offered a formal apology on behalf of the Ontario government for the brutalities of the Indian Residential School System.

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Title: Witness Blanket

URL: http://witnessblanket.ca

Description: The website for the Witness Blanket project, which aims to stand as a national monument to recognise the atrocities of the Indian Residential School era, honour the children, and symbolise ongoing reconciliation. Inspired by a woven blanket, the large-scale art installation is comprised of hundreds of items reclaimed from Residential Schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures including Friendship Centres, band offices, treatment centres and universities, from across Canada. The project was exhibited at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's national events.

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Title: Why Chanie Wenjack’s story might finally get action

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/why-chanie-wenjacks-story-might-finally-get-action/

Description: Published 12 September 2016. Article describes Gord Downie's efforts to raise awareness about the dark legacy of residential schools.

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Title: Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools

URL: http://wherearethechildren.ca/

Description: Developed in 2001, the goals of this website are: to acknowledge the experiences of, and the impacts and consequences of Canada’s Residential School System on Aboriginal peoples; to create a public and historical record of this period in Canadian history that could be easily accessed by Canadians; and to promote public awareness, understanding and education of the history and legacy of residential schools. This site is a counterpart to a touring exhibition that explores the history and legacy of Canada’s Residential School System.

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Title: What fish have to do with truth and reconciliation

URL: http://rabble.ca/news/2015/08/what-fish-have-to-do-truth-and-reconciliation

Description: Five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations from the west coast of Vancouver Island have sought to negotiate with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to implement their Aboriginal rights to fish and sell fish.

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Title: What Indigenous reconciliation means for millennials

URL: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/03/21/what-indigenous-reconciliation-means-for-millennials.html?utm_content=bufferb999e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 21 March 2016. This opinion-piece argues that it is time for non-Indigenous millennial Canadians to think more seriously about the relationship they want to build with Indigenous communities

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Title: We Were So Far Away [Video]

URL: https://vimeo.com/38127177/

Description: A Vimeo video from the resources page of the Forgotten Metis website in which eight Survivors, two from each of the Inuit geographic regions (Nunavik, Nunavut, Nunatsiavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region) share their stories.

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Title: We Were So Far Away - The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools

URL: http://weweresofaraway.ca

Description: Virtual exhibit mounted by the Legacy of Hope Foundation that records the stories of Inuit survivors of residential schools. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Watch now: Gord Downie's The Secret Path

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/secretpath/gord-downie-s-secret-path-airs-on-cbc-october-23-1.3802197

Description: Presented in the Arts section of the CBC website, this page features the full two hour video of Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire's animated film "Secret Path," plus documentary footage and a panel discussion. The combined film and documentary with discussion panel originally aired on CBC television on Sunday, 23 October 2016.

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Title: Walking Without our Sisters

URL: http://walkingwithoursisters.ca/

Description: The website for a commemorative art installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the US. The installation was exhibited as part of the TRC's national events.

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Title: Unlearning racism against Indigenous peoples in one generation

URL: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kairos-canada/2016/03/unlearning-racism-against-indigenous-peoples-one-generation?utm_content=buffer05fb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 21 March 2016, this article describes the use of the KAIROS blanket exercise to teach participants, especially children, about Indigenous cultures.

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Title: University of Manitoba - National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

URL: http://umanitoba.ca/nctr/

Description: The official web page for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). The NCTR was created to preserve the memory of Canada’s Residential School system and legacy. As of 2015, the NCTR has been the permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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Title: United Church Social Policy Positions

URL: http://www.united-church.ca/beliefs/policies/residentialschools/

Description: Links to policy documents on the United Church and residential schools dating back to 1992.

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Title: Understanding between aboriginals, non-aboriginals key to reconciliation, Sinclair says

URL: http://www.saultstar.com/2015/07/30/understanding-between-aboriginals-non-aboriginals-key-to-reconciliation-sinclair-says/

Description: An article detailing the ongoing work of Justice Murray Sinclair to achieve reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

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Title: Truth, in hope of reconciliation: Gord Downie tells the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/truth-in-hopes-of-reconciliation-gord-downie-tells-the-tragic-tale-of-chanie-wenjack/article32437308/

Description: A review of Gord Downie's inaugural performance of the Secret Path at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, 18 October 2016.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation positive for First Nations

URL: http://www.catholicregister.org/item/20653-truth-and-reconciliation-positive-for-first-nations/

Description: Representatives of the Catholic Church have perceived positive effects from the TRC investigations on Indigenous communities.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation commission challenges canadian churches

URL: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/dennis-gruending/2015/06/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-challenges-canadian-chur/

Description: An article in Rabble's "Pulpit and Politics" blog that discusses the TRC final report recommendations for Canadian churches.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission: what's in the final report

URL: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-whats-in-the-final-report/

Description: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report has been endorsed by newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has pledged to enact its recommendations.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission: By The Numbers

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/02/truth-and-reconciliation-_n_7491120.html

Description: Statistics on the residential schools that operated from 1883 to 1996 in Canada.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report details deaths of 3,201 children in residential schools

URL: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/15/truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-report-details-deaths-of-3201-children-in-residential-schools.html

Description: More than 3,000 Indigenous children and youth died in residential schools, as detailed in the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission urges Canada to confront 'cultural genocide' of residential schools

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-urges-canada-to-confront-cultural-genocide-of-residential-schools-1.3096229

Description: This article outlines the 94 recommendations of the TRC.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Archived Site)

URL: http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=3

Description: The original website for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada prior to its relocation to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

URL: http://trc.ca

Description: The official website for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada for the duration of the TRC's mandate. Upon the issue of the TRC's final report the commission's web presence was transferred to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. As such this URL leads to a portal redirecting to the NCTR. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report points to 'growing crisis' for indigenous youth

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/truth-and-reconciliation-final-report-1.3361148

Description: The TRC final report raises concerns that Indigenous youth are overrepresented in Canada's prisons and child-welfare system

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Canada)

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_of_Canada

Description: The Wikipedia entry on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with external links. Most recent page update at time of crawl was 8 June 2016.

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Title: Truth and Reconciliation

URL: http://www.anglican.ca/tr/

Description: Anglican Church of Canada's website on the Indian residential school system, including resources, findings of the TRC, and the church's apology for its role in the IRS.

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Title: Truth Seeker: Murray Sinclair's relentless quest for the facts about residential schools

URL: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/truth-seeker-murray-sinclairs-relentless-quest-for-the-truth-about-residential-schools

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Title: TheTRCCanada - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTRCCanada/

Description: Videos relating to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including footage from national events.

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Title: The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-lonely-death-of-chanie-wenjack/

Description: In 1967, a Maclean’s cover story told the tragic tale of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died after running away from his residential school in northern Ontario.

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Title: The chief who said no: One Northern village rejected residential schools and built their own instead

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-chief-who-said-no-one-northern-village-rejected-residential-schools-and-built-their-own-instead/

Description: Rather than allow government officials to remove children of the Jean Marie River reserve in the Northwest Territories, chief Louis Norwegian spearheaded the building of a school on the reserve in the early 1950s, the first of its kind in Canada.

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Title: The Runaways Project: Help us tell these stories

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-runaways-project-help-us-tell-these-stories/

Description: During its exhaustive investigation,  the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada uncovered evidence of at least 32 children who lost their lives while attempting to run away from residential schools. Maclean's magazine is listing the names and known details of those runaway children who did not survive and seeks public assistance in making more stories known. Article includes a link to the first story in the series.

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Title: The Role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police During the Indian Residential School System

URL: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/aboriginal-autochtone/irs-spi-eng.htm

Description: A report written by Marcel-Eugène LeBeuf, Ph.D., on behalf of the RCMP, that assesses the RCMP’s involvement in the Indian Residential School (IRS) system as the police force of jurisdiction in many areas where Indian Residential Schools were located. Resource also available in French.

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Title: The Residential School System

URL: http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/the-residential-school-system.html

Description: A sub-page of the UBC Indigenous Foundations Arts program focused on the history of residential schools, their long-term impacts, and the federal government response.

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Title: The Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://www.lop.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/prb0848-e.htm

Description: This paper reviews the TRC's historical context, provides an overview of its terms of reference and its purpose, and discusses certain themes drawn from past truth commissions and other transitional justice initiatives conducted internationally. Resource also available in French.

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Title: The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund

URL: https://downiewenjack.ca/

Description: A website for the fund created by Canadian musician Gord Downie to support the work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. The Fund is focused on cross-cultural education to support healing and recovery and foster relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people, with all proceeds going to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Title: The Day of Apology [Video]

URL: https://vimeo.com/43821625/

Description: A Vimeo video from the resources page of the Forgotten Metis website that provides highlights of June 11 2008, the day the Prime Minister of Canada issued an apology for the Indian residential school system.

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Title: The Children Remembered: Residential School Archive Project

URL: http://thechildrenremembered.ca/

Description: The website for the United Church of Canada's The Children Remembered: Residential School Archive Project, which addresses the history of the church’s Indian Residential Schools. The project was intended to be a form of repatriation to First Nations communities and a recognition of the church's responsibility to engage in truth-telling about its role in the residential school system and colonialism.

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Title: The Canadian First Nation suicide epidemic has been generations in the making

URL: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/12/canadian-first-nation-suicide-epidemic-attawapiskat-indigenous-people/

Description: Published 12 April 2016, this article links the suicide epidemic on remote First Nations reserves to intergenerational trauma and abuse created by the Indian Residential Schools.

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Title: The Ara Irititja Project

URL: http://irititja.com

Description: Community-based, multimedia digital archive and social history project of Anangu of Australia, sharing knowledge to support indigenous-led digital projects.

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Title: The Anglican Church of Canada's apology for residential schools

URL: http://www.anglican.ca/tr/apology/

Description: Apology delivered by then-Primate Michael Peers to the National Native Convocation in Minaki, ON, on 6 August 1993. Translated from English into French and 11 Native languages.

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Title: Sudbury to host reconciliation conference

URL: http://www.thesudburystar.com/2016/03/14/sudbury-to-host-reconciliation-conference?utm_content=buffer392bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 14 March 2016. Youth from across the country gather in Sudbury from March 17-19 for the Canadian Roots Exchange National Youth Reconciliation Conference: Niigaanzhaadaa, Moving Forward Together, Avançons ensemble.

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Title: Study shows link between continued abuse of aboriginal women, residential schools

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/study-shows-link-between-continued-abuse-of-aboriginal-women-residential-schools/article23874393/

Description: The Cedar Project is the first in Canada to show a statistical connection between continued abuse and the residential school system.

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Title: Statement of apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools

URL: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649

Description: Statement of Apology made on Wednesday June 11, 2008, by the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, to former students of Indian Residential Schools, on behalf of the Government of Canada. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Statement by Prime Minister on release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2015/12/15/statement-prime-minister-release-final-report-truth-and-reconciliation-commission/

Description: Statement issued by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after receiving the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Title: St. Anne's Residential School survivor says Ottawa 'hiding evidence'

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/st-anne-s-residential-school-survivor-says-ottawa-hiding-evidence-1.2466795

Description: Survivors of St. Anne's Residential School seek to have the federal government release documents supporting their abuse claims.

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Title: Speaking My Truth

URL: http://speakingmytruth.ca

Description: The website for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's three-volume series "Truth and Reconciliation," which includes "From Truth to Reconciliation;" "Response, Responsibility, and Renewal;" and "Cultivating Canada."

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Title: Skeleton of aboriginal girl, buried 180 years ago on Alberta farm, becomes unlikely ‘bridge builder’

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/skeleton-of-aboriginal-girl-buried-180-years-ago-on-alberta-farm-becomes-unlikely-bridge-builder/

Description: A ceremony was held in October 2015 to re-bury the bones of a young Aboriginal woman found on a farm near Viking, Alberta. The farmer contextualized the experience in terms of the findings of the TRC and the necessity of building bridges between cultures.

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Title: Secret Path

URL: http://secretpath.ca

Description: A website for the album and graphic novel, Secret Path, by Canadian musician Gord Downie. The project tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, who died fleeing the Celia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, in October 1966. Proceeds donated to the Gord Downie Secret Path Fund for Truth and Reconciliation via the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Title: Save the Evidence

URL: http://www.woodland-centre.on.ca/save-evidence-fundraising-campaign

Description: A sub-page of the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario. The Save the Evidence campaign aims to raise the necessary funds for repairs and renovations to the historic Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School building in Brantford.

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Title: Rubenstein & Clifton: Truth and Reconciliation report tells a ‘skewed and partial story’ of residential schools

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rubenstein-clifton-truth-and-reconciliation-report-tells-a-skewed-and-partial-story-of-residential-schools

Description: Commentary expressing skepticism at the findings of the TRC report. One of the authors, Professor Clifton, identifies himself as a supervisor at a residential school in the 1960s.

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Title: Royals to see powerful residential schools monument on B.C. visit

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/royals-to-see-powerful-residential-schools-monument-on-bc-visit/article31892715/

Description: Published 15 September 2016. "When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit British Columbia this month, they will come face to face with a powerful monument to a devastating consequence of colonization. The Witness Blanket is a beautiful piece of art about one of Canada’s ugliest chapters: the residential school system."

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Title: Returning to Spirit Reconciliation Workshops

URL: http://returningtospirit.org

Description: Returning to Spirit (RTS) is a non-profit charitable organization that addresses the legacy of residential schools through workshops designed to promote personal empowerment and community leadership.

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Title: Residential schools, reconciliation on curriculum for B.C. teachers

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/residential-schools-reconciliation-on-curriculum-for-b-c-teachers-1.3196613

Description: This article outlines the new curriculum materials on residential schools and reconciliation for British Columbia schools .

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Title: Residential schools to blame for problems plaguing aboriginals: Truth and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/residential-schools-to-blame-for-problems-plaguing-aboriginals-truth-and-reconciliation-commission/

Description: An exhaustive new report has concluded that modern-day Canada is perpetuating the mistakes that led to the creation of the often-abusive aboriginal residential schools more than a century ago through policies that continue to harm Indigenous people.

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Title: Residential school documents to be publicly available for first time

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/residential-school-documents-to-be-publicly-available-for-first-time/article27075555/

Description: Tens of thousands of records amassed during various stages of the settlement process with survivors of Indian residential schools will be released to the public. They will shed light on a long and often brutal attempt by the government at forced assimilation.

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Title: Residential Schools: an Introduction

URL: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/01/residential-schools-an-introduction/

Description: Blog post discussing the legacy and public perception of residential schools.

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Title: Residential Schools: Promises Of Reconciliation Saved In Bentwood Box

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/30/residential-schools-prom_n_7474608.html

Description: The bentwood box present at each national TRC event represents the commitment to achieving reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

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Title: Residential Schools Archive Will Try To Balance Survivor Concerns With Education

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/11/01/residential-schools-archive-trying-to-balance-survivor-privacy-public-education_n_8445132.html

Description: The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba has a central role in preserving the millions of records collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and educating Canadians about residential schools.

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Title: Residential Schools

URL: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/residential-schools/

Description: An article on the Historica Canada website that addresses the history of residential schools. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Residential School: Canada's Shame

URL: http://www.shannonthunderbird.com/residential_schools.htm

Description: Private webpage on the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.

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Title: Residential School System Was 'Cultural Genocide': TRC Report

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/02/canadians-to-face--ugly-t_n_7490612.html

Description: This article, published 2 June 2015, argues that the release of the TRC Final Report offers emotional catharsis for survivors of Canada's residential schools. The Final Report officially describes their collective ordeal as a "cultural genocide" that tore apart their families and left individuals to contend with lifelong scars of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.

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Title: Residential School Records' Fate To Be Decided By Ontario Court

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/26/fate-of-heart-wrenching-residential-school-abuse-stories-hangs-in-balance_n_8392878.html

Description: A two-day hearing in 2015 addressed the issues of what to do with thousands of testimonial records from survivors of Indian residential schools who sought compensation for sexual and other abuse.

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Title: Residential School Deaths Need More Study: Truth And Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/31/deaths-at-canadas-indian_n_7478904.html

Description: As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission finishes its five-year mandate, more investigation is needed to determine how many children died in residential schools.

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Title: Reports of theTruth and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://nctr.ca/reports.php

Description: Links to reports issued or created by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Title: Remembering the Children: An Aboriginal and Church Leaders' Tour to Prepare for Truth and Reconciliation

URL: http://www.rememberingthechildren.ca/

Description: Remembering the Children was a March 2008 multi-city tour by Aboriginal and church leaders to promote the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

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Title: Remembering Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://presbyterian.ca/2016/09/15/remembering-chanie-wenjack/

Description: The Presbyterian Church in Canada recognises that the story of Chanie Wenjack has an important place in its institutional history. The Presbyterian Church in Canada ran 11 residential schools between 1884 and 1969, including the Cecilia Jeffrey school in Kenora, Ontario.

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Title: Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice

URL: https://united-church.ca/social-action/justice-initiatives/reconciliation-and-indigenous-justice

Description: United Church of Canada resources on reconciliation, indigenous justice, and the Church's involvement in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Title: Reconciliation Canada

URL: http://reconciliationcanada.ca/

Description: Reconciliation Canada engages Canadians in dialogue and transformative experiences in an effort to revitalize the relationships among Indigenous peoples and all Canadians.

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Title: Rachel Notley Apologizes For Alberta's Residential School Legacy

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/22/albertas-notley-apologiz_n_7639484.html

Description: Premier Rachel Notley has apologized on behalf of Alberta to indigenous peoples for abuse in residential schools and added her voice in support of an inquiry for missing and murdered aboriginal women.

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Title: Project of Heart

URL: http://projectofheart.ca/

Description: Project of Heart is an interactive artistic project that seeks to examine the legacy of the IRS system and commemorate the lives of the thousands of children who died in residential schools. The project was present at the TRC's national events. Certain pages of the website can be toggled to French.

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Title: Professors launch Truth and Reconciliation petition

URL: http://www.themanitoban.com/2015/08/professors-launch-truth-and-reconciliation-petition/24276/

Description: In a direct response to the TRC report's 94 recommendations, four University of Manitoba professors have launched a petition urging all levels of government in Canada to take concrete steps toward truth and reconciliation with indigenous people.

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Title: Our Stories... Our Strength [Video]

URL: https://vimeo.com/27171085/

Description: A Vimeo video from the resources page of the Forgotten Metis website. Our Stories… Our Strength is a national commemoration and education project that collects, organizes and shares the stories of Residential School Survivors and others affected by residential schools.

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Title: Our People: Lejac Residential School

URL: http://www.nadleh.ca/our-people/our-history/

Description: Sub-page of the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation with details on the Lejac Residential School.

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Title: Ottawa still fighting lawsuit from Newfoundland residential-school survivors

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-continues-to-fight-lawsuit-from-newfoundland-residential-school-survivors/article28140052/

Description: The federal Justice Department has sent a clear signal that Ottawa intends to fight a lawsuit brought by former residential school students in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Title: Op-Ed: Indigenous studies is central to liberal arts education in Canada

URL: http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/op-ed-indigenous-studies-is-central-to-liberal-arts-education-in-canada/

Description: The University of Winnipeg and Lakehead University recently announced plans to integrate compulsory indigenous-focused courses across their programs.

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Title: New Heritage Minutes tackle ‘some hard truths about residential schools and treaties’ as part of reconciliation

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-heritage-minutes-tackle-some-hard-truths-about-residential-schools-and-treaties-as-part-of-reconciliation/

Description: Published 21 June 2016. Article addresses the two new Canadian Heritage Minutes videos on the history of residential schools and treaties.

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Title: New Heritage Minutes spotlight 'black marks' on Canadian history

URL: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/new-heritage-minutes-spotlight-black-marks-on-canadian-history-1.2955236

Description: Two new Heritage Minutes videos recount 'black marks' in Canadian history, including the breaking of treaties and the death of IRS students such as Chanie Wenjack.

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Title: New Heritage Minute explores dark history of Indian residential schools

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/new-heritage-minute-explores-dark-history-of-indian-residential-schools-1.3643363/

Description: A new Heritage Minute released for National Aboriginal Day tells the story of Chanie Wenjack.

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Title: New Canadians know too little about indigenous peoples: Reis Pagtakhan

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/new-canadians-know-little-indigenous-1.3482694?utm_content=buffer69769&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Reis Pagtakhan argues that Canada needs to adopt the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations for the country's immigration system.

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Title: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation opens in Winnipeg

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-centre-truth-reconciliation-winnipeg-1.3301305

Description: The article describes the role of the NCTR as the permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the TRC.

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Title: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

URL: https://nctr.ca

Description: Dedicated website for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Resource also available in French.

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Title: Mysterious deaths highlight troubling lengths First Nations youth must go for an education

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/ontario-inquest-first-nation-students-thunder-bay-racism/

Description: Article draws parallels between the deaths of aboriginal youth attending high school far from their home communities and deaths that occurred within the residential school system.

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Title: Mulcair Demands PM Ask Pope To Apologize For Church's Role In Residential Schools

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/07/mulcair-demands-pm-ask-po_n_7529762.html

Description: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ask the Pope to apologize on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for its involvement in Canada’s residential school system.

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Title: Mulcair Demands PM Ask Pope To Apologize For Church's Role In Residential Schools

URL: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mulcair-demands-pm-ask-pope-to-apologize-for-church-s-role-in-residential-schools-1.2410594

Description: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ask the Pope to apologize on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for its involvement in Canada’s residential school system.

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Title: Mizana Gheezik

URL: http://sincmurr.com/

Description: Blog of Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the TRC.

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Title: Missing and Murdered: Searching for the lost. Fontaine anniversary a reminder trauma begets trauma

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/traumas-calamitous-echoes/article25968124/?from=26580441

Description: This article places the death of Tina Fontaine within the context of intergenerational trauma leading back to the residential school system. It is part of an ongoing Globe and Mail investigation into the hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

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Title: Missing History: Recovering Canada's Lost Histories

URL: http://missinghistory.ca/

Description: A project of the Legacy of Hope Foundation and building on the lesson plans of the LHF Edukit, this website offers an opportunity to deliver a message to Survivors, their families, communities, and to all Canadians about Canada’s residential school history, and about the importance of reconciliation and healing.

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Title: Meet the journalist who inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to write about Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ian-adams-gord-downie-1.3813737

Description: In 1967, Ian Adams wrote "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack" for Maclean's magazine. In the fall of 2016, two Canadian cultural icons are crediting it as the source of inspiration for new works that tell the story of Wenjack's death after running away from residential school.

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Title: Manitoba vows to strengthen child-welfare services

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/manitoba-pledges-to-overhaul-child-welfare-system/article22651311/

Description: The Manitoba government will revamp its child-welfare system and introduce new legislation that will strengthen the Office of the Children’s Advocate.

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Title: Liberals agree to revoke spanking law in response to TRC call

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-agree-to-revoke-spanking-law-in-response-to-trc-call/article27890875/

Description: In promising to enact all of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the federal Liberals have agreed to remove a section of law that allows parents to spank their kids without fear of prosecution.

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Title: Legal misstep lets Catholic Church off hook for residential schools compensation

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/legal-misstep-lets-catholics-off-hook-for-residential-schools-compensation/article29657424/

Description: Published 17 April 2016. Article argues that a miscommunication by a federal lawyer allowed the Catholic Church to renege on its obligation to try to raise $25-million to pay for healing programs for the survivors of Indian residential schools.

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Title: Legacy of Hope Foundation: Raiding awareness of the legacy of residential schools

URL: http://www.legacyofhope.ca/

Description: LHF is a national Aboriginal charitable organization whose purposes are to educate, raise awareness and understanding of the legacy of residential schools, including the effects and intergenerational impacts on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, and to support the ongoing healing process of Residential School Survivors. Fulfilling this mandate contributes towards reconciliation among generations of Aboriginal peoples, and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.

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Title: Legacy of Hope Foundation [Video]

URL: https://vimeo.com/90667657/

Description: A Vimeo video from the resources page of the Forgotten Metis website that illustrates how the Legacy of Hope Foundation is educating Canadians on the history of Indian Residential Schools. The video was produced by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and was filmed in October 2013.

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Title: La liste des pensionnats indiens en Alberta

URL: http://oblatesinthewest.library.ualberta.ca/fr/impact/indianschools.html

Description: Une liste des pensionnats indiens en Alberta à partir d'information provenant de sources catholiques et oblates et des sites Web de l'Église anglicane et l'Église unie du Canada.

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Title: Justin Trudeau says he'll engage Pope on apology for church's role in residential schools

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aboriginal-residential-schools-trudeau-meeting-1.3367026

Description: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will seek a formal apology from Pope Francis for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools, a day after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission made public its final report into the legacy of the schools.

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Title: Justin Trudeau pledges reconciliation in Canada after Aboriginal abuse

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/15/justin-trudeau-pledges-reconciliation-canada-aboriginal-abuse/

Description: Published 15 December 2015. The forcible separation of some 150,000 children from their families over more than 100 years was an attempt to end the existence of Aboriginals in Canada, a report concluded.

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Title: Judge approves $50M residential school settlement

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/judge-approves-residential-school-settlement-1.3782105

Description: Article describing Justice Robert Stack's approval of the $50-million class-action settlement for survivors of Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools.

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Title: Jesse's Thesis: Behind the scenes of the TRC's (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) National Research Centre (NRC)

URL: https://jesseboiteau.wordpress.com/

Description: Blog maintained by Jesse Boiteau, an Archives Studies Masters student at the University of Manitoba, who documents the processes behind the creation of the National Research Centre (NRC) for Truth and Reconciliation.

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