“This huge, formidable task to investigate missing children and unmarked burials at each of the former residential school sites. That search for records — for information of what happened — is going to take a long time. It’s a lot of different pieces and it’s a lot of records that haven’t been able to be accessed.”
SPPGA Prof. Tricia Logan, cross-appointed with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and interim Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, spoke with media this week on and in the lead up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
In an article published by Renita Bangert in Beyond UBC titled “How the truth about Indian Residential Schools in Canada was suppressed” Prof. Logan and the researchers at IRSHDC highlighted the following significant reports by settler Canadians: The Davin Report (1879) revealing government intention to assimilate Indigenous children; The Shaw letter (1898) indicating staff awareness of residential school abuse; and The Bryce Report, (1907) calling for Residential School reform. Read the full article here.
Prof. Logan also gave expert comment in the Toronto Star, CBC News, and Global News:
Officials knew about abuse, deaths at residential schools in 1800s, scholar says
CBC News
Residential school survivors are still fighting for access to records. They can’t heal, until they know
Toronto Star
9 Indigenous people have died in police altercations since the end of August
Global News
Learn more about Dr. Tricia Logan and her research here.
