Learning Resources

Native Land Digital: An interactive “living map” of Indigenous peoples worldwide

Indigenous oral histories, records, and maps are prioritized. You can use it to learn about people who lived / now live where you do.

Learn about institutional efforts toward acknowledgment of harm and restorative action:

Video (~90 min)
Indigenous Communities, Child-Family Separation, and the Catholic Church: What Do Truth and Healing Require?

Articles
Opinion pieces

• Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools

• Religious boarding schools harmed generations of Indigenous people. Churches must take responsibility. | Faith and Leadership

• Reconciliation needs to address Canada’s history of spiritual abuse
  
  Apologies

• 1997: Episcopalians Apologise for Church's Treatment of Native Americans 

• 2019: “An Apology for Spiritual Harm” - The Anglican Church of Canada

• 2024: Episcopal leaders welcome President Biden’s apology to Indigenous peoples, acknowledge the church’s involvement in boarding schools

• Why the Pope's lack of apology over church's role in residential schools was no surprise to Vatican observers | CBC News