Pope Francis finally admits that the decades-long treatment of Indigenous children in Catholic-run boarding schools in Canada amounted to a genocide.

Sexual abuse and exploitation were common at Native American boarding schools, survivors told a US House subcommittee on Thursday while recounting their harrowing ordeals. 

In upcoming meetings, Canadian indigenous leaders will seek the public apology over the Catholic Church’s abuse of native children in boarding schools.

A long-overdue search for unmarked graves at the notorious Mohawk Institute prompts renewed calls for full transparency.

The Canadian government has appealed a federal court decision upholding a ruling that would require that it pay billions of dollars to indigenous children and their caregivers harmed by a discriminatory welfare system, saying it would instead seek to negotiate a deal.

Anger is mounting in Canada over the horrific recent discovery of 700 unmarked graves belonging to Indigenous children.

Hundreds of unmarked graves, many believed to be of children, have been found at the site of another former Church-run residential school in Canada.