These letters are first hand accounts of Indigenous children in TB sanatoriums. Heartbreaking. @APTNInvestigate@APTNNews @HollyMooreaptn @brittany_guyot
Letters written by Inuit patients in tuberculosis sanatoriums reveal first hand accounts of isolation, frustration and loneliness.
@HollyMooreaptn and @brittany_guyot spent years researching and repatriating the letters to their families.
#APTNInvestigates Friday: Writing Home
Kenneth Jackson is a producer with APTN. Over the last few years he’s helped to expose Ontario’s child welfare system for what it is – broken.
@APTNInvestigates: Left to Die – Watch here: https://t.co/X0KqXmAvGj @CullenCrozier
Nygel Dorey’s 17-year old daughter, Tyra Williams-Dorey, died by suicide in March of 2015. She had told her social worker about the date she was planning to end her life.
#APTNInvestigates: Left to Die – Watch here: https://t.co/X0KqXmAvGj @CullenCrozier
I’ve lived with this story for the last two months. It’s tragic, heartbreaking and kind of unbelievable. My heart goes out to the families of Devon Freeman and Tyra Williams-Dorey. I was honoured to share their stories. @APTNNews@APTNInvestigate
Pamela Freeman’s 16-year-old grandson, Devon Freeman, died by suicide in October of 2017. His body was found over six months later, less than 35 metres away from his group home.
#APTNInvestigates: Left to Die – Watch here: https://t.co/X0KqXmAvGj @CullenCrozier
Devon Freeman died while in care of a group home in Ontario in 2017. He was only 16 years old. My latest documentary @APTNInvestigate: Left to Die airs tomorrow. @afixedaddress @APTNNews
Gibbet Stevens was born in Eskasoni, but her parents came from Malagawatch, an ancient Mi'kmaw community. They were forced to move during the 1940s when Indian Affairs decided to centralize the Mi'kmaq.
#APTNInvestigates: A Relocation Experiment – Part 2: https://t.co/W7mEi2ZLHj
Tonight on #APTNInvestigates: Centralization was a policy in the 1940s to relocate Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia.
@TrinaRoache asks what happened to early claims for compensation.
Here's a preview of Part 2 of “A Relocation Experiment.”
Albert Marshall is a well-known Mi'kmaw Elder in Eskasoni. He says the impacts of a 1940s relocation policy interrupted the traditional economy of the Mi'kmaq.
#APTNInvestigates: A Relocation Experiment - Part 2 Friday from @TrinaRoache.
Watch Part 1: https://t.co/SPqXUV6RKG
Communities in Nova Scotia today still suffer the effects of a 1940s plan to relocate Mi’kmaq.
Now acknowledged as a failed social experiment, some Mi’kmaq are looking for answers.
#APTNInvestigates: A Relocation Experiment - Watch Part 2 Friday from @TrinaRoache.
Shirley Anne Taylor was just four years old when her family moved to the Shubenacadie reserve, known today as the Sipekne'katik First Nation. In the 1940s, Indian Affairs uprooted many Mi'kmaw families.
#APTNInvestigates: A Relocation Experiment - Part 1 https://t.co/h23tdICc64
Uprooted: The little known story about Mi’kmaw history of forced relocation
Watch the latest episode of APTN Investigates here: https://t.co/fkUDA2ghhL
Centralization was a policy in the 1940s to relocate Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia.
APTN's @TrinaRoache spoke with Don Julien and Lisa Patterson about how Indian Affairs enticed the Mi'kmaq to move with promises that would be broken.
#APTNInvestigates Friday: A Relocation Experiment