indigenous people

A report says 710 Indigenous people were reported missing in the state over the past decade.

Richard Monette’s mother attended an Indigenous school in Canada and had to adhere to a strict regimen like washing dishes and scraping wax off the floors. The schools, many of which banned Indigenous languages and culture, made headlines recently when mass graves were found – holding the bodies of students who did not survive the strict system. But Monette says...

Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children.

You may have seen headlines about 215 children being found in a mass grave behind a school in Kamloops, Canada. Law professor Nicole Schabus explains the system that put those children there – in which Canada sent more than 150,000 First Nation children to Indigenous schools. The system sought to convert the children to Christianity and prevent them from speaking their native languages.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school