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Residential Schools in Canada: Survivor Truths, Access to Records, and the Post-TRC Era

October 28, 2023 @ 8:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Free

A lecture by Dr. Tricia Logan, Interim Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, and Assistant Professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC.

Dr. Logan is a Métis scholar with more than 20 years of experience working with elders and leaders in First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. She has held roles at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Métis Centre at the National Aboriginal Health Organization, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and the Legacy of Hope Foundation. Dr. Logan has worked with survivors of residential schools, completed research on the Métis experience in residential schools, and worked with Métis communities on a Michif language revitalization project.