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Telling Our Twisted Histories School
For over 150 years, Indian Residential Schools were one of the primary means by which the government assimilated us in order to “kill the Indian in the child.” These compulsory schools shattered our families, our languages and our cultures. This great pain was passed down from generation to generation and impacts our communities to this day. Together, we will decolonize ...
- 2021
- 00:23:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/27/2021
Party Lines A residential schools reckoning, again
Elamin and Rosie explore the state of Canada’s path to reconciliation with the help of CBC colleague Duncan McCue. Many people across the country have reacted with shock and horror at the preliminary discovery on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., where the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said they found the potential remains of possibly ...
- 2021
- 00:27:51
- 15-17
- Added on: 07/13/2021
The National Indian day school survivors await settlement
It’s taken a decade to hammer out a compensation package for survivors of Indian day schools, but this week a federal court in Winnipeg is holding hearings on a tentative settlement worth $1.4 billion.
- 2019
- 00:02:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/23/2019
The National A Canadian artist's efforts to capture stories of survival
A Saskatoon artist is using her portraits to examine two groups that suffered through oppression; in a way, bringing them face to face.
- 2019
- 00:03:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/28/2019
The National Residential school survivor in search of apology from Pope Francis
As the Pope prepares for a historic summit on sexual abuse in the priesthood, a Canadian Indigenous woman is getting ready to take her painful story to the Vatican in search of an apology from the head of the Catholic Church.
- 2019
- 00:02:43
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/25/2019
The National Catholic bishops offer no clarity on residential school apology
Catholic bishops weren't able to offer any clarity on a potential apology for the church's role in Canada's residential schools. During a news conference, the bishops appeared to try and distance the church from its ties to the schools. Despite the setback, Indigenous leaders say they won't stop seeking an apology from the Vatican.
- 2018
- 00:02:08
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/23/2018
CBC News #Beyond94 – Canada's cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples Must-See
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spoke to thousands of survivors and found that what took place in residential schools in Canada amounted to the cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples. So what changes have been made since then?
- 2018
- 00:03:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/18/2018
CBC News #Beyond94 – Why language is vital for this Inuk residential school survivor
Inuk residential school survivor Jack Anawak once fired back at a fellow MP who criticized his speaking Inuktitut in the House of Commons.
- 2018
- 00:06:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/18/2018
CBC News #Beyond94 – From residential school to one of Manitoba's first Indigenous nurses
Ann Callahan began residential school in the 1930s at age four. Despite facing challenges she pursued higher education, becoming one of the first Indigenous nurses in Manitoba.
- 2018
- 00:07:20
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/18/2018
The National Is the Canadian government delivering on Truth and Reconciliation?
More than two years ago the Canadian government promised to bring justice and equality to Indigenous people following the Truth and Reconciliation commission. There were 94 calls to action in the report — this CBC News exclusive progress report digs into whether the government is delivering on its promises.
- 2018
- 00:02:44
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/09/2018
CBC Short Docs The Secret Path: Freedom to Speak
A group of inmates at Toronto South Detention Centre are studying Secret Path, Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel about Chanie Wenjack. Chanie was a young Anishinaabe boy who died while running away from residential school in 1966 — simply because he wanted to go home. Many themes in Chanie’s story resonate with these inmates: isolation, identity, fear, anger, the ...
- 2017
- 00:08:18
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/12/2017
CBC Arts Gord Downie's Secret Path in Concert
“If this is the last thing I do, I'm very happy. This is what I want to do." This intimate concert film captures Canadian musician Gord Downie’s remarkable and emotional Secret Path performance in October 2016, interwoven with footage from the original animated film. This live tribute to Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy who died trying to escape residential school, ...
- 2017
- 00:58:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/11/2017
The National Jesuits, First Nations Participate in Reconciliation Canoe Trip
After learning about the Jesuit residential schools in Ontario, a priest in training organized a canoe trip with Indigenous, Jesuit and lay participants with the goal of reconciliation.
- 2017
- 00:10:37
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/23/2017
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Wab Kinew: Full Interview (Part 1 of 2)
Why are stereotypes of Indigenous people so prominent in Canada? Why is it so hard to get non-Native Canadians to pay attention to the experiences that Indigenous people have endured? Wab Kinew talks with George Stroumboulopoulos about some of the problems facing Canadian society and suggests some possible solutions. Part 2 of the interview is available here.
- 2012
- 00:11:34
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/25/2017
CBC Short Docs The Secret Path: In The Classroom
Gord Downie's Secret Path tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a young boy who died trying to get home from residential school in 1966. It's been taught in classrooms across Canada this year. Daisy and Pearl Wenjack, Chanie's sisters, visit a school in Toronto where the children have a special surprise for the family.
- 2017
- 00:09:37
- 9-12
- Added on: 10/05/2017
CBC Short Docs The Secret Path: Ahead by a Century
A group of Ontario high school students write and perform a play that honours Gord Downie’s music and Secret Path project. On the day of the dress rehearsal, drama teacher Scott Garbe invites a very special guest to watch scenes from the play. Tim “Redfeather” Thomas, a 74-year-old Mi'kmaq elder, talks about his own experiences in residential school with the cast.
- 2017
- 00:06:10
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/04/2017
The Current Senator Lynn Beyak’s remarks 'like a slap in the face': Matilda Wilson
Matilda Wilson, a residential school survivor from Smithers, B.C., rose to speak at a public forum hosted by CBC's The Current. She called Senator Lynn Beyak's comments in defence of the "well-intentioned" people who ran the residential school system "a slap in the face." Wilson shared her own experience being taken to a residential school in 1956, as well as the ...
- 2017
- 00:01:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/13/2017
The Current Why don't residential school survivors just get over it?: Murray Sinclair Must-See
To those who ask why Indigenous people don't just "get over" the residential school experience, Senator Murray Sinclair has this response: "My answer has always been: Why can't you always remember this?" Sinclair was speaking at one of The Current's public forums on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
- 2017
- 00:01:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/13/2017
We Are Canada We Are Canada, Episode 6
Putting seed production back in the hands of the small farmer; preserving the stories of residential school survivors; and building cameras for a new frontier of ocean discovery. In this episode: Adam Gobi, Jane Rabinowicz and Ry Moran.
- 2017
- 00:44:08
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/25/2017
CBC Arts CBC Arts Road to Reconciliation Panel Discussion
How can Chanie Wenjack's story make a difference? Following The Secret Path broadcast, CBC live-streamed The Road to Reconciliation, a special one-hour panel conversation hosted by Melanie Nepinak Hadley, with CBC's Jesse Wente, filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation director Ry Moran, live from CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.
- 2016
- 01:08:18
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/16/2016
Cross Country Checkup Art and reconciliation
The Secret Path is a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art — films, books and music — offer the best path to heal historical wrongs? Guests include Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road, The Orenda and most recently the novella Wenjack; Susan Aglukark, Inuk singer and songwriter; Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for ...
- 2016
- 01:53:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/10/2016
CBC Arts The Secret Path
This powerful animated film tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Ojibwa boy who died of exposure in 1966 while running away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. The story is told through music by Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and illustrations by graphic novelist Jeff Lemire. The Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history — ...
- 2016
- 00:59:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/09/2016
CBC Radio One Dying For An Education: Little Charlie
He wasn't the first residential school runaway, and he wouldn't be the last. Chanie (Charlie) Wenjack died after fleeing the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, trying to make it to his home on the Marten Falls First Nation 600 kilometres away. When his story was chronicled by Ian Adams in Maclean's magazine, ordinary Canadians got one of their first ...
- 2012
- 00:11:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/07/2016
The National Residential Schools and Hockey
Duncan McCue explores how hockey provided an outlet for many Indigenous students in Canada's residential school system.
- 2014
- 00:12:48
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/13/2016
News in Review - September 2015 Residential School Shame: The TRC Report
In the 19th century the Canadian government set up the residential school system as a way to teach English and Christianity to Aboriginal children. Successive generations were taken from their families and put in boarding schools run by churches. Over the years, many of the children suffered physical, mental and even sexual abuse. Many died. In 2008 the Truth and ...
- 2015
- 00:18:20
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/18/2015
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