The Long Read: On day of remembrance, churches confront their role in Indigenous boarding schools
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how US churches are grappling with the role they played in the country’s boarding school system for Indigenous children…
Canada marks first national holiday for Indigenous reconciliation
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Canada on Thursday held its the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the lost children and survivors of Indigenous schools, following the gruesome discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at two former schools earlier this year. The so-called residential school system, which operated between 1831 and 1996, removed about 150,000 Indigenous […]