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  1. Film: #MohawkMothers Taking Message to #SupremeCourtOfCanada

    Posted on October 17, 2024, #MohawkNationNews

    "The Mohawk Mothers and the Independent Special Interlocutor For #MissingChildren and #UnmarkedGraves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian #ResidentialSchools went officially to #Ottawa to deliver an application to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case against #SocieteQuebecoisesDesInfrastructure, #McGillUniversity, #RoyalVictoriaHospital, City of #Montreal Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of Quebec. No. 500-09-030847-248 SCM No. 500-17-120468-221. They made a public declaration on the steps of the Supreme Court of Canada at 1.00 pm on Oct. 16, 2024 which is covered in the following film..."

    Link to original post and videos:
    mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024

    #IndianResidentialSchools #TruthAndReconciliation #FirstNations #FirstNationsCanada #TeiohatehTwoRow #Kahnistensera #SupremeCourtOfCanada #NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide
    #StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools
    #Assimilation #ChildAbuse

  2. #Kahnistensera / #MohawkMothers File in #SupremeCourtOfCanada in Search for #UnmarkedGraves of Their Children

    Posted on October 15, 2024, Mohawk Nation News

    "After the 'opening words that come before' at the rally, these were the words of a Mohawk #KnowledgeKeeper: 'We find ourselves in the ongoing violation of the #TeiohatehTwoRow, which is the agreement made between us in the beginning of our relationship. We have tried to alert the #Crown that there is a violation going on which places both of us in rough waters. Today we stand in front the Supreme Court of Canada facing a political violation by the people of #Canada that we wish to discuss so that we may get #justice"

    Source and videos:
    mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024

    #NativeAmericanGenocide #Genocide #UnmarkedGraves #StolenChildren #ResidentialSchools #Assimilation #ChildAbuse

  3. Members of #Piapot #FirstNation, students from the #UniversityOfWinnipeg & various other professionals are learning new techniques that will hopefully be used for ground searches of potential #UnmarkedGraves sites in the future.

    A new company “Kā-natonahkik-tāpwēwin,” which in the #Cree language translates to “In search of the truth,” is leading the training. The company known as KNT IRS Consulting for short, is an #Indigenous owned, on-reserve company.

    regina.ctvnews.ca/sacred-work-

    #NativeJustice

  4. It was in May 2021 that Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc announced the 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian residential school.

    Since that time many other First Nations have done their own searches, and a lot has been learned.

    A national event was held in Regina to share information about that new knowledge and discuss movement forward.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #Indigenous #residentialschools #unmarkedgraves #missing #children #TRC

  5. To counter a planned “chat” at the University of Alberta by an educator who was fired from her teaching job for voicing residential school denialism, the Indigenous Graduate Students’ Association has invited the author of
    "Debunking the ‘Mass Grave Hoax': A report on media coverage and residential school denialism in Canada" to speak about identifying and confronting such denialism.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #Indigenous #residentialschools #unmarkedgraves #TRC #education

  6. Global News BC: First Nation in B.C. says 158 children died at three residential school sites, hospital globalnews.ca/news/9978035/bc- #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Sto:loNationresidentialschool #St.Mary'sresidentialschool #ResidentialSchoolDeaths #StMary'sSchoolMission #Sto:loNationresearch #UnmarkedBurialSites #ResidentialSchools #St.Mary’sSchool #BCFirstNations #unmarkedgraves #Stó:lōNation #Canada

  7. A two-year ground penetrating radar search of a cemetery used by the Beauval Indian residential school in Saskatchewan has revealed anomalies of the potential unmarked graves of 79 children and 14 infants.

    It’s expected to impact 16 communities in the northwest, both First Nations and Métis. The announcement of the search findings was made on Aug. 29.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #GPR #unmarkedgraves #residentialschool #Saskatchewan

  8. An interim report from the office of the independent special interlocutor into missing children, unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian residential schools was released at Cowessess First Nation.

    Interlocutor Kimberly Murray reports in "Sacred Responsibility: Searching for the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials" that a multitude of barriers still exist in undertaking the work.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #FirstNations #unmarkedgraves #residentialschools #missing #children

  9. Residential school memorial pole will make stops on Vancouver Island before installation in Vancouver

    A blackened column carved with children’s faces, representing lives lost at Indian residential schools, has been created by acclaimed Kwakwuitl carver Stanley Hunt.

    The pole will soon travel through Vancouver Island before installation on Indigenous People’s Day, June 21.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #residentialschools #BC #memorial #culture #art #commemoration #Canada #unmarkedgraves

  10. The National Advisory Committee on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials is concerned with an arrangement struck with the International Commission on Missing Persons.

    The committee says it will not take part in the commission's engagement process on DNA collection, identification and repatriation of human remains from the unmarked burial sites associated with former residential schools.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #Indigenous #residentialschool #unmarkedgraves #DNA #missingpersons #ICMP #Canada

  11. Reminders of #Canada ’s #shameful treatment of #IndigenousPeoples were constant as Marie Clements shot parts of her sweeping #drama “Bones of Crows” at former residential school, where hundreds of suspected graves were discovered two years ago.
    The #writer #director says fictional scenes depicting #abuse at a #ResidentialSchool were shot at the #KamloopsBC facility where the #Tkemlups te #Secwepemc #FirstNation said it had found 215 suspected #UnmarkedGraves in May 2021.

    saanichnews.com/news/residenti

  12. Some #PrivateLandowners are #refusing #access to #ResidentialSchool #survivors who are looking to perform #ceremony or #search their properties for possible #UnmarkedGraves - a #SenateCommittee heard Tuesday.
    Kimberly Murray, who was #appointed by #Canadian #government to provide it with advice on how to handle possible #BurialSites told #senators about her role & #MainConcerns she says she has heard from #Indigenous communities.

    beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canad

    #KKKanada #NativeKids #EveryChildMatters

  13. ‘We are talking about little children…who are still lost.’

    There was only one time she remembers being angry and shouting as a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said former commissioner Marie Wilson, and that was about the existence of residential school records that could help find lost children.

    It is one of the memories “that stands out in a million memories,” said an emotional Wilson on Jan. 17.

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

    #TRC #unmarkedgraves #residentialschools #Canada

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