#Finding David Lightning: The decades-long quest to locate an unmarked grave

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“#Finding David Lightning: The decades-long quest to locate an unmarked grave” The short, elderly man walked into the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery. Instead of turning left into the exhibit galleries, he veered right, into the staff offices. In the coffee break room, the stern-faced stranger approached a young, burly figure—a fellow Cree working…

#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story

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“#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story” I caught up with Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in the midst of a national reckoning over this summer’s discovery of hundreds of gravesites where Indigenous children are believed to be buried. Sinclair has…

#‘At every turn, Canada chooses the path of injustice toward Indigenous peoples’

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“#‘At every turn, Canada chooses the path of injustice toward Indigenous peoples’” Pam Palmater: Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead. That is a damning assessment from peoples who, more often than not, have extended their…