We welcome you to the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.

The records on our site emerge from the cultural and physical genocide that the Canadian government and churches conducted through the Indian Residential School System, including the ongoing impacts.

Bearing witness to these records may become overwhelming. If you are a Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor and would like support, you can call the 24-hour National Indian Residential School Crisis Line at:

1-866-925-4419

Please click the button below for other cultural and mental health resources.

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples final report released

1996
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The Commission’s final report was a five-volume, 4000 page report covering a wide range of issues. It included 440 recommendations, highlighting the need for change in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and Canada as a whole. This change would include acknowledgement and respect for Indigenous cultures, values, and an inherent right to Indigenous self-determination. Implementing this change would have required changing the constitution. In 1998 Canada responded to the report; the federal government emphasized non-constitutional approaches to some issues raised by the report and committed $350 million to support community healing projects, with a special emphasis on addressing the legacy of residential schools.

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