#firstnationshistory — Public Fediverse posts

CBC: Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it’s too late. “A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.”

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

“Black, a Bidjara and Ghungalu man, is here most afternoons, enthusiastically telling tourists about the area’s Aboriginal history. He shows them artefacts he’s found in the mountains: axe heads, grinding stones, crude but effective knives chipped from stone – all rattling around in a Coles shopping basket on the back seat of his LandCruiser.
“I’ll tell you the real story – the one that’s not in the history books,” he says.”

Another #TruthTelling from the Guardian’s The Descendants Series.

“Cullin-la-ringo was a turning point in Queensland’s history, paving the way for “warfare” between First Nations peoples and the settlers over control of the state’s north. It would claim the lives of tens of thousands of Indigenous people over the decades that followed. Some groups, including the Gayiri, never recovered.”

Nothing I can type here will do justice to history and the need to get it out in the open. Best you read the article(s) in this series yourself and bear witness to thie Continent’s recent past.

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/cullin-la-ringo-massacre-central-qld-queensland-tom-wills-family-ntwnfb?

#Makaratta #IVotedYes #FirstNationsHistory #NativePolice #NorhtQLD #1890s

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For the First Peoples who fought against the US, the war was a disaster. Tragically, Tecumseh's dream of a Pan-Indian land that would halt future encroachments by the USA was annihilated at the battles of the Thames and Horseshoe Bend.

At the conclusion of the war, the British, not for the first time in their dealings with Indians vis-à-vis the USA, showed themselves readier to get back to business with the Americans than to secure the position of their erstwhile allies.

How I wish that a contemporary portrait of Tecumseh had survived!

Image: 1846 N.Currier print shows Col. R.M. Johnson using a pistol to kill Tecumseh during the War of 1812, at the battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada. -- Library of Congress - Public Domain.

#WarOf1812 #FirstNationsHistory #AmericanIndianHistory #Tecumseh

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: New NCTR research identifies 140 Oblate priests and brothers who served in residential schools, aiding Survivor research. ” Through research, agreements and dialogue with the Oblates of OMI Lacombe, the NCTR has created a list of Oblate priests and brothers who participated in the administration and/or operations of these schools. Many of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/262576/

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: New NCTR research identifies 140 Oblate priests and brothers who served in residential schools, aiding Survivor research. ” Through research, agreements and dialogue with the Oblates of OMI Lacombe, the NCTR has created a list of Oblate priests and brothers who participated in the administration and/or operations of these schools. Many of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/262576/

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: New NCTR research identifies 140 Oblate priests and brothers who served in residential schools, aiding Survivor research. ” Through research, agreements and dialogue with the Oblates of OMI Lacombe, the NCTR has created a list of Oblate priests and brothers who participated in the administration and/or operations of these schools. Many of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/262576/

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: New NCTR research identifies 140 Oblate priests and brothers who served in residential schools, aiding Survivor research. ” Through research, agreements and dialogue with the Oblates of OMI Lacombe, the NCTR has created a list of Oblate priests and brothers who participated in the administration and/or operations of these schools. Many of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/262576/