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Behind the Orange Shirt

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Behind the Orange Shirt

Phyllis Webstad puts cruel nuns at centre-stage in "The Orange Shirt Story" but she didn't mention nuns in accounts of her year at St. Joseph’s, which was no longer a school when she arrived there in 1973.

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The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact-Check Two Years Later

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The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact-Check Two Years Later

TWO YEARS AFTER the claim rocked the world that “the remains of 215 children” had been found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, we know much more than we did at the time.

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“They Were Not Forced”

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“They Were Not Forced”

The claim that 150,000 status Indian children were 'forced' to attend residential schools is misleading at best, write Nina Green, Brian Giesbrecht, and Tom Flanagan. For example, enforcement of compulsory attendance was often lax to non-existent.

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"Our Dear Children": Sisters' Chronicles of Indian Residential School

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"Our Dear Children": Sisters' Chronicles of Indian Residential School

Sisters' Chronicles reveal the warmth, kindness and dedication of the women who nursed, taught and cared for children at Indian Residential Schools 

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