Destruction of structures and practices that allow a group to continue as a group.

The nature of trauma as experienced over many years.

This regulates the management of reserves and sets out certain federal obligations.

Traditional Indigenous knowledge to be a balance among four components within a human: emotional, mental spiritual and physical.

An important and growing group of people in Canada.

A strong connection the the land; millennia-old knowledge of the land and its uses; collective cultures focused on the good of the people, not the individual; and an elastic sense of time focused on seasons rather than hours.

The pathways by which the nature of trauma is understood and experienced by "Aboriginal survivors of the residential school system and their descendants" as well as "the pathways by which this trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next.

A place where children were sent to live year round in order to sever the link between identity and culture.

A term to describe a phenomenon that continued into the 1990's which involved apprehending children from reservations and Indigenous families "on the slightest pretext" in order to "save them from the effects of crushing poverty, unsanitary health conditions poor housing and malnutrition".

This included: The Common Experience Payment, in which all who had resided at a residential school would be eligible for a $10,000 CEP, plus as additional $3,000 for each year or partial year they attended.