
People held hands and formed a circle around Indigenous drummers during a Round Dance ceremony that was organized on campus by the University of Ottawa’s Indigenous Resource Centre on Nov. 15, 2019. Shot for The Fulcrum

The lives of three boys who ran away from Inuvik’s Stringer Hall residential school in 1972 were honoured at a ceremony in Inuvik, N.W.T. on June 6, 2019. Bernard Andreason, Dennis Dick and Lawrence Jack Elanik were no older than 13-years-old when they set out on foot to return home to the neighbouring community of Tuktoyaktuk, a journey that spanned two weeks. Andreason managed to make it home, but his two friends died along the way. During the ceremony, Elders and family members of the two boys prayed over Andreason, centre, who turned 58 later that year. Shot for the Inuvik Drum

Father Kanickaisamy Lawrence, the priest at Creston’s Holy Cross Catholic Church, poses for a portrait in the living room of the church’s rectory on Feb. 5, 2021.

Zaudanawng “Jay-Dan” Maran looks outside his window at his Creston, B.C., home on Jan. 22, 2021. In 2007, Maran was forced to flee his home in the Kachin State of Myanmar after he helped a woman escape the hands of two soldiers who were sexually assaulting her. He came to Creston in 2014, after hiding out in Malaysia for several years, waiting to receive his refugee card status. Hanging on the wall behind him is a logo of Kachin’s Manaw festival. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance