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Article content This all culminated in the burning and desecration of more than 45 churches and the toppling of half a dozen statues. Thursday’s media presentation didn’t deliver another jaw-dropping headline, but it did give us a better understanding of what was discovered. A researcher from the Fraser Valley University near Vancouver walked us through her research and methods, explaining how she detected roughly 200 “subsurface anomalies” which remain “targets of interest.” The 21...

A survivor of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan is calling on the federal government to acknowledge the ‘atrocities’ committed against Indigenous people by providing funding for healing centres aimed at helping residential school survivors cope with years of trauma and abuse.

Alberta, Canada – Alsena White, aged 67, is illiterate. She gets by with the help of her children and grandchildren. Alsena was taught at the Blue Quills Indian Residential School near St Paul, Alberta. From the age of five to 16, she lived at the federal government-funded school, ushered through grade after grade. Yet no one seemed to notice – or to care – that she could neither read nor write. “[To them] I was just another Indian,” she says of the Catholic nuns and priests who admi...

Winnipeg Free Press MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Christmas dinner at Siloam Mission in years past: officials insist the charity can adjust to Indigenous perspectives without sacrificing its Christian principles. As Siloam Mission prepares to make changes to the way it relates to Indigenous people, its new chairman sees no conflict between that and the organization’s Christian foundation. As Siloam Mission prepares to make changes to the way it relates to Indigenous people, it...

Jim Bell, now former CEO of Siloam Mission. Article continues below advertisement ↴ Siloam Mission is announcing the departure of CEO Jim Bell after recent allegations of cultural insensitivity were brought against the organization. At the very beginning of the year, January 6, Bell alongside Siloam Mission released a 4-page statement defending itself against the allegations that the mission was blocking Indigenous cultural activity and programming that had the potential to bring heal...

Article content By Lee Beaton Prairie Fusion Arts & Entertainment is excited to be launching our Fusion: Home Series. These free virtual events are brought to you with the support of the Safe at Home Manitoba grant. We will be presenting free events in dance, visual arts and concerts. Details can be found on our website, prairiefusion.ca and we are adding more events over the next 10 weeks. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Confirmed events are: Jigg...