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Residential School Denialism And Backlash Against Reconciliation

October 5, 2026 Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair, Canadian Dimension. , , ,
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released its final report 10 years ago, in 2015, and it changed Canada forever. On the one hand, we have witnessed a lot of progress in the last decade. In 2019, the Government of Canada passed the Indigenous Languages Act to protect, revitalize, and promote Indigenous languages, directly addressing Calls to Action 13, 14, and 15. In 2021, responding to Call to Action 80, September 30 (originally, Orange Shirt Day) was established as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund was created to help communities search for unmarked burials and missing children.

Indigenous Leaders, Allies Honor Orange Shirt Day

October 4, 2023 Will Hodgkinson, Workers' World. , , ,
United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) and their allies took over the entrance of Boston’s Basilica Church Sept. 30 to commemorate the “National Day For Truth and Reconciliation” in so-called Canada. Commonly known as Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30 commemorates the tens of thousands of Indigenous children kidnapped and imprisoned by Canadian settler authorities in residential “schools.” The U.S. government also operated a murderous system of boarding “schools,” where settler authorities forced kidnapped Native children to “assimilate” into white settler culture.

Orange Shirt Day Boston

September 30, 2022 Jean-Luc Pierite and Mahtowin Munro, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Boston, MA - According to Jean-Luc Pierite, President of the Board of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), “We want to show our solidarity today with all those internationally observing Orange Shirt Day. We must honor the thousands of children who were forced into residential schools where they suffered and too often died. The governments of Canada and the United States continue to take a disproportionate number of Indigenous children into foster care. These governments further fail to address access to clean water on tribal lands. Canada and the US continue to boost pipelines and other extractive projects. Meanwhile the crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women goes underreported and under-investigated.”
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