Articles/Commentaries
Reconciliation with Indigenous Australia by Australian Jesuits
Department of the Interior Releases Investigative Report, Outlines Next Steps in Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative by Deb Haaland and Bryan Newland U.S. Department of the Interior
Indigenous peoples, spirituality and Catholicism by CathNews New Zealand
Brazilian Church backs Indigenous groups in fight against mining interests by Eduardo Campos LimaCrux
Among the Yup’ik people, a priest finds a new kind of faith by Rosie McCarty U.S. Catholic
Opinion: Pope Francis apologized to First Nations peoples, but what does a pope’s apology mean? by Annie Selak The Conversation
After Pope’s apology, Canada’s indigenous survivors want compensation, records by Anna Mehler Paperny Reuters
Address at a Meeting with Representatives of Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Pope Francis Vatican Dicastery for Communications
Canada Indigenous tell pope of abuses at residential schools by Nicole Winfield The Associated Press
Pope Francis meets with representatives of Canadian indigenous peoples by Thaddeus Jones Vatican News
Canada indigenous demand Church admit role in ‘genocide,’ rescind colonization edicts by Elise Ann Allen Crux
Williams Lake First Nation sets date to release findings of St. Joseph’s Mission investigation by The Williams Lake Tribune
Former boarding school for Indigenous children owning up to its past by Peter Smith The Associated Press/National Catholic Reporter
Canada’s ‘crying shame’: The fields full of children’s bones by Brandi Morin Microsoft News
Ontario NDP demands removal of Indigenous Affairs minister over residential school settlement by CBC News
Canada challenges indigenous compensation order by BBC/Microsoft News
Brazil saw a 61 percent surge in murders of Indigenous people last year, study shows by Reuters/NBC News
Red Lives Matter. A visit to Alcatraz provides a timely reminder that there is no popular movement to end the national disgrace of America’s treatment of native peoples by Jonaj Baskin Tablet
Federal probe of American Indian boarding schools reflects dark chapter in U.S. history by Joe Nelson, San Bernardino Sun/The Press-Enterprise
Survivors reach settlement with Church, Commonwealth by CathNews
Indigenous elders are teaching me the lesson of abundant generosity by Claire Lucas Global Sisters Report
Brazil’s indigenous people facing obstacles to receiving COVID vaccine by Eduardo Campos Lima Crux
Priest's Aboriginal victims sue Pope Francis over church's failures by Chip Le Grand Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous voice panel split over referendum by CathhNews
Australia: Reconciliation Action Plan to correct “past injustices” against Aboriginal people by Lisa Zengarini Vatican News
Church needs to confront painful histories with 'unflinching honesty,' speakers say by Madeleine Davison National Catholic Reporter