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The history of cemeteries at Indian residential schools in Canada is evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity, says independent special interlocutor Kimberly Murray in a newly released historical report.

History of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide, interlocutor says

Kimberly Murray speaks after being appointed as Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, at a news conference in Ottawa June 8, 2022. 

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Thousands of former residential school students detailed the abuses they suffered to adjudicators determining eligibility for compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. But few have sought to have copies of their words archived.

Some advocates want residential school abuse records re-examined, archived as debate on their future continues

Saskatchewan-based lawyer Donald Worme, a member of Kawacatoose First Nation, is on board with increasing the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala's reach in Canada. The organization has offered to help with efforts to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools.

Sask.-based lawyer welcomes Guatemalan group's offer to support search for unmarked graves

One of Guatemala’s foremost experts in forensic anthropology is offering his support for Indigenous communities investigating unmarked burials linked to residential schools in Canada.

'You're not alone': Guatemalan anthropologist offers support for unmarked graves searches

Kimberly Murray says she's received no word from Canada a month after she hand-delivered her two-volume final report in Gatineau, Que., finding that children who died and were buried at Indian residential schools were victims of a crime against humanity.

Special interlocutor still waiting for Canada's response to report on disappeared residential school children

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani, left, receives a report by Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools during a national gathering in Gatineau, Que., Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. 

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Records show arranged marriages between residential school students as early as the 1890s, while the Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected testimony from survivors who said they faced forced marriage as late as the 1950s. 

Some missing residential school students disappeared into arranged marriages, report says

Leah Redcrow believes her grandparents, Ruby and Stanley Redcrow, could have been put in an arranged marriage back when both were students at Sacred Heart Indian Residential School back in 1928. 

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The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, in partnership with Amnistie internationale Canada francophone, will host the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in 2026 to investigate missing children and unmarked graves associated with Canada's residential school system.

International tribunal to investigate missing children, unmarked graves associated with residential schools

A hand-painted stone lies in the grass at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, June 1, 2023. 

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A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they're calling a funding cut and come up with more money to help find the unmarked graves of students who went to these institutions.

Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find unmarked graves

The figure, contained in an interim report, is more than triple the number previously recorded. The report says while no confirmed human remains have been found to date, there is an "overwhelming abundance of evidence" supporting the legitimacy of the investigation underway.

At least 55 kids disappeared from B.C. residential school, says report

A recent request to change the wording in a mandatory Indigenous intercultural course for lawyers in British Columbia led to a debate over whether the changes amounted to residential school denialism. 

How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism

What we learned in 2024 about children missing from residential schools

As a nurse and a drag artist, Anita LandBack blazes a trail in the name of Indigenous resilience

Wolf Castle, a rapper from Pabineau First Nation, speaks about his lyrics with Morgan Toney, a Mi’kmaw Celtic fiddler from Cape Breton. They connect about lyrics, loss, and music being a safe space to be vulnerable.

N.B. rapper Wolf Castle opens up about his lyrics

Dee Dee Austin, a singer-songwriter from Halifax and a member of Abegweit First Nation in P.E.I., talks about her lyrics with Salome Barker, who hosts a weekly CBC radio segment, and Morgan Toney, a Mi’kmaw fiddler from Cape Breton.

Mi’kmaw pop artist reflects on how music is her medicine

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A Mi’kmaw woman from Abegweit First Nation, on Epekwitk/P.E.I. Melissa Peter-Paul was invited to create the latest header design for CBC East Coast "all in" — a monthly CBC newsletter featuring stories and ideas that reflect all the ways we're different on the East Coast.

Meet Melissa Peter-Paul: Mi'kmaw quill artist from Abegweit First Nation, P.E.I.

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Morgan Toney , fiddler from We'koqma'q and Wagmatcook First Nations fuses traditional Mi’kmaq and Celtic music into his self-described genre at the Marquee Ballroom for the CBC Music series Road to the Junos.

Road To The Junos: Morgan Toney's unforgettable performance

CBC News invited Brady Googoo of Millbrook First Nation to our Halifax studios to reflect on his own story, as well as the stories he tells through dance and his motivation to keep performing after more than a decade.

Meet the Mi’kmaw dancer who’s been performing more than half his life

Profiling incredible L'nu artists from across Mi'kma'ki

Closing arguments concluded on Wet'suwet'en abuse of process hearing

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Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, a wing chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, describes what she says were lasting physical and emotional impacts after being arrested in a police raid in 2021.

Wet'suwet'en leader testifies RCMP forcibly removed sacred items

Sleydo' is one of three members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation suing RCMP and Coastal GasLink over alleged harassment they claim they suffered when police and security officers overstepped the boundaries of an injunction. 

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Wet'suwet'en leader Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, took the stand Tuesday. She said her role as a spokesperson for the Gidimet’en Checkpoint made her a potential target.

Disturbing audio played in court during Wet'suwet'en' hearing

A police officer told a judge Tuesday that RCMP were worried about weapons, booby traps and partly felled trees when enforcing an injunction against blockades of construction work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in November 2021. 

RCMP at Coastal GasLink pipeline blockade raid worried about weapons, booby traps

RCMP tactical teams arrest people blockading Coastal GasLink's pipeline construction in November 2021. 

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The RCMP's federal review agency says “significant delays” in obtaining relevant material from the Mounties will impact its investigation into the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), a special unit created to police civil disobedience against pipelines in British Columbia.

'Significant delays' will impact completion of RCMP C-IRG probe, review agency says

An international human rights group is calling for an immediate halt to construction and use of the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the withdrawal of police and private security forces from Wet'suwet'en territory in northern B.C., citing what it considers ongoing human rights violations against activists resisting construction.

Amnesty International reports 'ongoing violations' of human rights on Wet'suwet'en territory

On Monday, TC Energy announced it has finished installing pipe on its Coastal GasLink pipeline project.

Despite opposition and environmental violations, major B.C. pipeline project nearly complete

RCMP officers referred to First Nations pipeline opponents as "orcs" and "ogre" during a police raid at a blockade of Coastal GasLink pipeline construction in November 2021, according to audio recordings played in court Wednesday.

RCMP officers mocked people being arrested at Wet'suwet'en blockade as 'orcs' and 'ogre'

RCMP officers on the Morice River Forest Service Road on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.

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The leader of an RCMP unit tasked with policing resistance to resource extraction in British Columbia says injunctions justify his squad spending nearly $50 million on operations over five years.

Injunctions justify RCMP spending near $50M on resource standoffs, B.C. Mountie says

The judge will now hear their applications of abuse of process, as the three accused allege the RCMP used excessive force when they were arrested and that they were treated unfairly while in custody.

Wet'suwet'en leader and pipeline opponents found guilty of criminal contempt of court

A Crown lawyer suggested the RCMP behaved reasonably in the circumstances as she cross-examined a Wet'suwet'en leader arrested for blockading the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2021.

Crown suggests RCMP acted fairly in Wet'suwet'en leader's arrest

Wet'suwet'en leader Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, is shown at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint encampment near Houston, B.C. She is a wing chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.

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A lawyer representing three people arrested for blocking construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline on Wet'suwet'en territory told court Wednesday that police mocking them during the arrests was a violation of their charter rights.

Lawyer argues pipeline opponents' charter rights breached during arrests

In this still image taken from RCMP video, Sleydo' (Molly Wickham), a Wing Chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, is arrested Nov. 19, 2021 at Coyote Camp.

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ICYMI: Abuse of process hearing for Wet'suwet'en leader, pipeline opponents nears its end

Buffalo Treaty celebrates 10 year anniversary on revitalization of the sacred animal

Wolastoqey chiefs claim 'enormous victory' in title claim against province

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Kelsey Nash-Solomon teaches Wolastoqey language classes at the Under One Sky Friendship Centre in the Fredericton area.

'She has a passion for it:' How one teacher is preserving the Wolastoqey language

Kelsey Nash-Solomon has been teaching the Wolastoqey language in the Fredericton area for 11 years.

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Jeremy Dutcher won the award, given annually to a Canadian full-length recording based on artistic merit, for his 2023 album, Motewolonuwok.

Neqotkuk's Jeremy Dutcher 1st double-winner of prestigious Polaris Music Prize

Jeremy Dutcher is now the only artist to win the Polaris Music Prize twice. He won in 2018 for his debut Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa and in 2024 for his follow-up Motewolonuwok. 

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A Wolastoqi elder is launching her latest project to try to preserve her language and share her culture. Opolahsomuwehs, whose English name is Imelda Perley, has a new children’s book out, written in Wolastoqey, Mi’kmaw and English.

Elder's new children's book written in Wolastoqey, Mi'kmaw and English

Wolastoqi elder Imelda Perley with some of the special objects she planned to bring to her book launch Monday at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Wolastoqi elder Imelda Perley

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Wolastoqey chiefs have written an open letter criticizing Premier Blaine Higgs's government for how it's handled its duty to consult with First Nations and signaling their readiness to work with a new government.

Wolastoqey chiefs slam Higgs, ready to work with new government should election be called

Wolastoqey chiefs made a formal request to the province to have the St. John's River  renamed Wolastoq. Shown are five of the six chiefs, from left: Gabriel Atwin of Kingsclear First Nation, Patricia Bernard of Madawaska First Nation, Allan Polchies Jr. of St. Mary's First Nation, Shelley Sabbatis of Oromocto First Nation and Ross Perley of Tobique First Nation.

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Liberal Leader Susan Holt and Green Leader David Coon are both highlighting access to health care as a top campaign issue on the eve of an expected early election call.

Liberal, Green leaders highlight health care on cusp of possible snap election

Wolastoqey chiefs in New Brunswick are shifting their Aboriginal title claim case to pursue the province's largest forestry companies in a bid to reclaim title to much of their traditional territory.

Wolastoqey chiefs add forestry companies to title claim case

In a memo to all provincial staff, New Brunswick Attorney General Ted Flemming ordered that no "territorial or title acknowledgements" be made in reference to First Nations lands.

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