What the TRC compiled was a record of a system designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, including at least 3,200 ...

The TRC report, released in 2015, laid out ninety-four clear Calls to Action. Ten years later, Indigenous writers reflect on ...

First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” Indigeneity, the ...

I s it possible for Indigenous nations to define their own priorities within the very same economy built on their oppression ...

Even at its most reconciliatory, Canada engages in Land Back initiatives selectively: only in instances where the political ...

Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a ...

I n my forties, I decided to run for public office. We built an amazing team over two years with a hard-core grassroots campaign. Our motto was “Run Like a Girl.” And I won. I was appointed minister ...

I n 1970, a New York publishing company put out a debut novel by an editor and former teacher from Ohio. The press, then ...

For six years, starting in 2007, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission travelled throughout the country, hearing testimonies from over 6,500 people who’d endured Canada’s residential school system.

The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a ...

W hen we arrived in Yellowknife, the high school residence, Akaitcho Hall, felt like the biggest building I’d ever seen. Even ...

I n 2019, my friend Brian Cantwell Smith published a book about the power and limitations of artificial intelligence. We ...