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Brandon Industrial School exemplified settler-colonial control, using landscaped grounds, forced labour, and distant relocation to erase Indigenous land relationships.

Thirty years after North of 60 first aired, Melaw Nakehk’o and Brie O’Keefe are rewatching every episode of the CBC show in a new podcast: Lynx River Revisited.

Taylor Galvin champions Indigenous-led science, water protection, cultural revitalization, and relationship-based environmental stewardship grounded in ancestral knowledge.

The Bear Island Indian Day School balanced Anishnabeg seasonality and colonial schooling until Ontario’s environmental policies dismantled land-based life and autonomy.

The Bear Island Indian Day School balanced Anishnabeg seasonality and colonial schooling until Ontario’s environmental policies dismantled land-based life and autonomy.

The Bear Island Indian Day School balanced Anishnabeg seasonality and colonial schooling until Ontario’s environmental policies dismantled land-based life and autonomy.

Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...

Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.

Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.

At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.

Dene artist Antoine Mountain shares his powerful story of survival, healing, and reclaiming identity after years in residential "schools".

Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

Strength is not just survival. It is how Indigenous Peoples have always transformed oppression into collective action — and how we will face residential schools denialism today.

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

Find conversations about land, water, and Indigenous knowledge in the final four convos of Season Five of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt

In spite of the distance from familiar people and places and the structured and colonial world of residential and day schools, institutionalized children found ways to sustain relationships with Land,...

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

While Indigenous leaders and workers absorb the shock of this week's layoffs, industry observers say the scaling back of production at Ekati is a reflection of challenges facing the diamond industry.