TORONTO (Reuters) - Pope Francis's long-awaited apology to Canada's indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be ...

Canada plans to reform its treatment of children of Indigenous families. The country promised more than $30 billion to fix the child welfare system. That system has often separated children from their ...

After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human ...

He headed a commission that documented widespread abuse in Canada’s boarding schools for Indigenous children and sought to correct the history of Indigenous people. By Ian Austen Reporting from Ottawa ...

A 2015 report said the schools were a component of "cultural genocide." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the recent discovery of more than 200 bodies in the grounds of what was the ...

An Inuit kayak, war clubs and masks were among the items handed over to Canadian bishops, who vowed to transfer them to Indigenous groups. But some have criticized ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to advocate Andre Bear about the root causes of child separation in Canada, and what needs to be done. The country... Why did Canada separate Indigenous families from their ...