For absolute beginners who don't know anything at all about residential schools. A short introduction.

Kwak waka’waka, Chaw-win-is Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee Natoin) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria. His research and teaching interests include Indigenous political mobilization, self-determination movements and community-based approaches to truth-telling. This Article provides background information on residential schools in BC and Canada, but also discusses survivors’ perspectives on the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee.