Stay updated with breaking news from Seven Generations. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Some 57,000 tiles individually painted by school children and youth groups are being laid out on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the survivors and victims of Canada's residential school system.
No one at the cemetery gets as much mail as the public health doctor who 99 years ago exposed terrible conditions and high deaths rates at residential schools.
Staff Writer ntrivuncic@fortfrances.com There are the lucky few who have known what they want to be from a young age but for most of us, it is a case of trial and error. For Rebecca Webb, financial planning consultant, it meant going across the globe to realize where she belonged. There are the lucky few who have known what they want to be from a young age but for most of us, it is a case of trial and error. For Rebecca Webb, financial planning consultant, it meant going across the globe to realize where she belonged. Webb went to high school in Fort Frances. At the time, there was still ...
ONEIDA - Leah Sue Dodge, an Oneida Nation citizen and publisher of OneidaEye.com, a watchdog blog critical of her tribe’s government, is featured in two books that were released this year for her work in rallying Oneida citizens against a proposed waste-to-energy plant in 2013. The Oneida Seven Generations Corp. tribal business had proposed its project as a provider of clean and renewable energy, but critics, including Dodge and a group called Incinerator Free Brown County, claimed the company had misrepresented the potential for pollution from emissions, and each side accused the other of ...
KITCHENER -- Reflection took many different forms around Southwestern Ontario for a very different Canada Day. The sacred fire at the Healing of the Seven Generations in Kitchener was put out for the July 1 holiday. The fire was kept burning for the past five days in honour of the children found on residential school grounds and those yet to be found. “We will be taking the embers from today and continuing a fire tomorrow to last until the last remains have been found of our children,” said executive director Donna Dubie. “It could be a couple of years.” Hundreds were in attenda...