Kanehsatake 35 years later. Remembering the day Canada sent in the military to violently clear #Mohawk land for a golf course Ellen Gabriel was on the frontlines of the 1990 military siege of her community. Read her latest: ricochet.media/indigenous/lan… #cdnpoli #landback #qcpoli

"We’re tired of being studied. The treatment release of the tailing ponds will never be accepted by my people unless you guys build a pipeline and you drink it first.”

From 2013 - Defenders of the Land: Indigenous Peoples have clear demands for real change | Indigenous Environmental Network ienearth.org/defenders-of-t…

Students were forced to dispose of newborns at Kuper Island residential school, says survivor “They stripped us of our dignity. They raped us. They whipped us, and they did everything possible to … defeat us mentally, physically,” survivor says timescolonist.com/local-news/stu…

average adult in Aotearoa can grasp meaning of around 1,000 Māori words with varying degrees of accuracy and confidence BECAUSE these words are so frequently used in NZ English. As many as 70 Māori words are decoded by NZ English speakers with both high accuracy and confidence.

“Oil and gas development in the sacred calving grounds in the refuge is “a clear violation” of the Gwich’in people’s rights to self-determination as expressed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”

“The deepest cuts would target Indigenous programs, with $4.5 billion in annual reductions by 2028 affecting First Nations education, health care, policing and community infrastructure. The cuts represent nearly one-fifth of the government’s total “savings” plan.”

1/ Denialists frame their demands for proof as if they’re pursuing truth. But what they’re really doing is reenacting the same colonial entitlement that built the Residential School system in the first place…

get Ojibwe people away from land in WI and MI the government wanted. But when Ojibwe ppl arrived, the payment wasn’t there. 400 people died of starvation. ictnews.org/news/they-are-…

In the 1990s, the RCMP launched a probe into residential school crimes in British Columbia. The final report has been made public for the first time thanks to the Investigative Journalism Foundation's Open by Default database. It's devastating 🧵thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/2…

“The strap was about a foot long and about four inches wide, and they hit you with that and naturally it stings for the first two or three times and after that it goes numb.”

Canada’s spies had "extensive" interest in the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff in a previously secret investigation into "Native extremism,” internal papers show. The heavily censored records were obtained during an access-to-information investigation. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

In case you missed it yesterday: cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

“Residential school denialism, as historian Crystal Gail Fraser has outlined, is an attack on truth. It seeks to dismiss the validity of ground searches and recast residential schools as humanitarian and benevolent.”

On #TruthAndReconciliationDay, we call on Canada to confront Residential School denialism. We believe Survivors. We honour their truth. We will never stop fighting for those who never made it home. Read our letter:

What’s Canada Doing about Residential School Denialism? | The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/0…

Federal report on MMIWG calls to action “recommended that [federal] ombudspersons be selected by December 31, 2024 and that all national and regional Indigenous offices be staffed and operational by December 31, 2025.”

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to sit and discuss Residential School Denialism with APTN News InFocus Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07MQMs…

As the denialists resurfaced this week, I am reposting this from 2022. Stand with Survivors. 👇

Is residential school denialism hate speech? Métis grad student Benjamin Kucher and activist Tracey Leost are calling on Ottawa to act. On the latest APTN News InFocus, Kucher joins us to talk about their calls to action. Listen to that discussion: pod.fo/e/336612