Indigenous Alberta

Stoney Nakoda has 103 active COVID cases, with neighbouring Canmore sitting at one active case and Banff with two cases.

"The whole journey is a march for awareness, and our own little sacrifice for our people as well,” said Dan Boudreau, a Métis father of three .

Two survivors of St. Albert residential schools share their stories.

Kehewin Cree Nation Chief Vernon Watchmaker is the Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations

“The real objective of residential schools was to beat the Indian out of the child,” MNA Vice President Dan Cardinal

“It’s a collective gasp across the country because it’s actual proof that these atrocities were committed,” Snow said. “[The proof] it’s in the bones and it’s in the blood memories. You can’t deny it.”

Mayor says tragedy ‘knocks the wind out of everybody’

After hearing the news that 215 children’s remains were unearthed underneath a former residential school, Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown and his fellow councillors took a two-minute moment of silence to start their meeting on June 7.

Indigenous artists in Treaty 6 who are working in the fields of visual art/painting, performance art, music, and spoken-word are encouraged to apply — but every artist is welcome.

A rally made its way from the west side of St. Paul to the St. Paul cathedral on Tuesday, remembering the lives lost at residential schools, honouring the survivors, and asking for answers.