At least 150,000 Indigenous children were part of the system. LONDON, ROME and TORONTO -- Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's brutal residential school ...

Pope Francis met with Indigenous people in Canada to hear firsthand accounts of harms inflicted by the country's residential schools. After his passing, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy ...

A judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court recently found that the Cowichan First Nation holds Aboriginal title over 800 acres of government land in Richmond, B.C. But that’s not all. Wherever ...

An investigation at an Indian residential school in Canada is the focus of the documentary, “Sugarcane," named after a Native reservation in British Columbia. The film is up for an Academy Award, and ...

Meaghan Weatherdon has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Northern Scientific Training Program, the Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship fund, the ...

KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) — A Canadian Indigenous leader who greeted world heads of state arriving for the Group of Seven summit says he was “filled with rage” and considered leaving before Donald ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people throughout the Americas. Some found Francis to be a reconciling figure, others a ...

Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwacis, the former Ermineskin Residential School, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay, ...