Portage College is committed to reconciliation and will observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday, September 30th. This day will give students, staff and faculty the opportunity to learn more about the history and ongoing consequences of residential schools, classes have been cancelled and employees will receive the day off work.
It's important to remember and honour those who never returned home after attending residential school and the survivors and their families who carry the burden of this painful part of our shared history.
We encourage people to go through the many resources provided on this web page.
Join us this year for a Sunrise Ceremony in St. Paul.
Schedule:
- 7:25 am Sunrise Ceremony
- 9:00 am Pancake Breakfast
- 9:30 am Project of Heart Presentation sponsored by Canadian Natural
Sunrise Ceremony 2022
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022
@ 7:25 AM
Sunrise Ceremony- 2021
It's important to remember and honour those who never returned home after attending residential school and the survivors and their families who carry the burden of this painful part of our shared history.
Please read the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Portage College press release.
Additional Resources
Books:
- Phil Fontaine, AiméeCraft. A Knock at the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.
- R. Miller. Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
- John Milloy. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1896. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
- Elizabeth Graham. The Mush Hole: Life at Two Indian Residential Schools. HefflePublishing, 1997.
For more book options, visit:
Memoirs:
- Arthur Bear Chief. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell. https://www.aupress.ca/books/120260-my-decade-at-old-sun-my-lifetime-of-hell/
- Edmund Metatawabin. Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through The Turbulent Waters
- Basil Johnston. Indian School Days
- WabKinew. The Reason We Walk
- Joseph Merasty. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
- Bev Sellars. They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- Theodore Fontaine. Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir
- Russell Moses, Columnist for Ottawa Citizen. “Moses: In residential school, we were treated as sub-human, and hunger was never absent.”
- We Were Children (2012)
- Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
- Christmas at Moose Factory (1971)
- The Secret Path (2016)
- Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors (2016)
- Indian Horse (2018) Available on Netflix
- The Chanie Wenjack Heritage Minute
- For more films and documentaries please go to:
National Film Board Residential Schools Video List
Vimeo Residential Schools Video List - CBC's Radio-Canada CURIO.ca Resources:
https://curio.ca/en/collection/beyond-94-truth-and-reconciliation-in-canada-2586/
https://curio.ca/en/collection/residential-schools-a-sad-chapter-in-canadian-history-2027/
https://curio.ca/en/collection/aboriginal-education-then-and-now-issues-controversies-and-concerns-1737/
We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.