The Circle for Democratic Solidarity

07/17/2025

Taken from our trip to Spanish, ON. We are deeply thankful for having had the opportunity to help the Nisoonag Partnership translate a diary from Wiikwemikoong Industrial School.

07/08/2025

Some highlights from our talk with Rose LeMay from June!

07/03/2025

Embracing Citizenship in “Maple Nation"
By Kayona Karunakumar

What might patriotism look like in a Canada that embraces all life in this land we love? Kayona Karunakumar reflects on lessons from Indigenous ways of being. This essay is inspired by Braiding Sweetgrass, the 2014 book by Potowatomi poet and botanist Robin Wall Kimerer

07/03/2025

The Auntie Up! Podcast presents: How do we counter residential school denialism?

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06/22/2025

Remembering Project celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day with a pow wow hosted by Kitigan Zibi First Nation

06/21/2025

Ottawa volunteers for the Remembering Project: come join us in celebrating National Indigenous Peoples' Day!

We gather just before noon for the Grand Entry at the

The Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival (SSIF) helps Canadians of all walks of life to recognize the enormous contributions that Inuit, First Nations and Métis peoples have made to Canada.

06/17/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/canadian-indigenous-leader-says-he-was-filled-with-rage-before-intense-conversation-with-trump/ar-AA1GPnR2?ocid=wispr&pc=u477&cvid=7f37c3e886794cf9a4f0fb562253e313&ei=11

As Canada's economic tensions continue to strain with the United States, how should First Nations communities respond?

Steven Crowchild, a Tsuut’ina Isgiya and a current elected member of the Tsuut’ina Nation Xakujaa-yina and Chief and Council, met with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit this past Father's Day.

06/16/2025

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/anishinabek-nation-chief-says-he-briefed-opp-on-protests-against-fast-track-bills/article_9796868f-6b98-5fa1-a110-d5dd08f10053.html

OTTAWA - A regional chief for Anishinabek Nation says he briefed Ontario Provincial Police Thursday on what to expect when First Nations take to the streets to protest provincial and

06/15/2025

From So Informed on instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK7VtMZxhxe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

06/12/2025

Finding Percy Percy Onabigon: A Multi-Part Story

In lieu of National Indigenous People's Day, it is crucial that we reflect on Canada's role in the Residential School system, as well as how past wrongs may properly be brought to justice.

As a child, Percy Onabigon was taken from his family in the Long Lake #58 First Nations community, and sent off to St. Joseph's Indian Residential School in Thunder Bay. But his stay was not long; Percy spent the remainder of his adult life in and out of hospitals and psychiatric wards, on account of his epilepsy. He never saw his family again.

For years, the Onabigon family has worked to find Percy's wherebaouts to no avail. But now, 59 years later, they have finally found closure.

On Tuesday, Percy's story will be continued. His memory could not have been honoured without the tireless work of Anishnabek Nation, with whom the Circle for Democratic Solidarity is proud to partner.

06/10/2025

National Indigenous People's Day is almost upon us. As we begin to reflect on Canada's past, please read this personal account by one of our volunteer researchers:

"The Cemetery that Changed my Life" by Kayona Karunakumar

https://www.democraticsolidarity.net/the-remembering-project-blog/the-cemetery-that-changed-my-life

04/14/2025

This picture was taken during the recent Rise Above conference (from March 4-6 2025) in Thunder Bay, ON, for St. Joseph's Indian Residential School Survivors, where Ben Rowswell gave a presentation on the work of The Remembering Project. It was an honour to attend the conference and be in the presence of residential school survivors; we look forward with hope and anticipation for what is yet to come.