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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: Le projet Wampum

URL: http://projetwampum.com/

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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: Canada still discriminating against First Nations kids, advocate says

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/canada-still-discriminating-against-first-nations-kids-1.3474592

Description: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Executive Director Cindy Blackstock speaks about the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's findings regarding ongoing discrimination against First Nations children in care.

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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: 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: La proportion d’autochtones dans les prisons a doublé

URL: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/02/08/la-proportion-dautochtones-dans-les-prisons-a-double

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Title: Pour retrouver la dignité usurpée

URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/458414/premieres-nations-pour-retrouver-la-dignite-usurpee

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Title: Canada's Prisons are the "new residential schools"

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/canadas-prisons-are-the-new-residential-schools/

Description: A months-long Maclean's investigation reveals that at every step, Canada’s justice system is set against Indigenous people.

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Title: 'Bridging the gap' between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals

URL: http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/News/Local/2016-03-06/article-4456752/Bridging-the-gap-between-Aboriginals-and-nonAboriginals/1?utm_content=buffer4ccbe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 6 March 2016. Kallie Wood, a First Nations child of the 60s Scoop, speaks at Aboriginal Awareness Week.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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