residential schools

Peter Shawn Taylor on the danger of judging historical figures, from Langevin to Cornwallis, on individual acts

Artists of all stripes are creating new works to honour the little boy who ran away from residential school 50 years ago this month. Here’s why.

’Chanie haunts me,’ Gord Downie says. ’His story is Canada’s story.’ There are other stories, of course, which Maclean’s wants to tell

Two boys escaping a residential school followed tragically in the footsteps of Chanie Wenjack. Their story was forgotten. Until now.

A spellbinding account of Chanie Wenjack, the Anishinaabe boy who died escaping a residential school

Joan Crate’s novel Black Apple takes readers inside a 1940s Prairies school

Award-winning author Joseph Boyden writes about truth, reconciliation, and a callous, uncaring government response

NDP MP Romeo Saganash, a survivor of residential schools, addresses the House of Commons on reconciliation

Acclaimed Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok talks about her life, including her own experience in residential schools, and a new book on her art and times

Jonathon Gatehouse’s 2006 profile of a controversial lawyer who is making headlines again