Ejinagosi Kistabish was baptized Richard at a priest’s insistence when he was three days old, but he only heard the name six years later when he went to residential school in Quebec and was ordered to use it. Decades later, he’s fighting to get his Anishinaabe name officially recognized.
Using archival photographs, unpublished reports, and eyewitness testimony, Radio-Canada has uncovered evidence suggesting there were likely dozens more deaths at Quebec Indian residential schools than the 38 officially reported.
OTTAWA - When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
OTTAWA When Lorraine Whitman's father, Chief Joseph Peters, asked for a cup of tea in his native Mi'kmaq, the care-home staff could not understand him.
The president of the Inuit representative body for treaty rights and negotiations said it's only by recognizing Inuktitut as one of Canada's official languages that schools would receive guaranteed support and funding to teach in Inuktitut, as do English and French schools.