Shannen's Dream Timeline & Documents

Spirit Bear: Fishing for Knowledge, Catching Dreams, featuring the story of Shannen Koostachin and her dream for safe and comfy schools was released. 

Caring Society submits report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, "Canada’s Ongoing Racial Discrimination Against 165,000 First Nations Children and Their Families", for Canada's Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report.

2018 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada - Report 5—Socio-economic Gaps on First Nations Reserves—Indigenous Services Canada.

Ontario First Nations Special Education Review Report released May 2017.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer releases a new report on First Nations education, confirming the ongoing shortfall in Federal funding.

Click here to read the report.

During February and March of 2016, the Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council of the Chiefs of Ontario conducted a survey in support of the Inquest into the deaths of seven youths in Thunder Bay. The goal of the survey was to learn from the personal experiences of First Nations youth, especially youth that have had to go to school off reserve. More than 100 responses were received from across the province.

Kattawapiskak Elementary School opens in Attawapiskat in late August, ending 14 years of children learning in portables.

Shannen’s Dream documentary Hi-Ho Mistahey! premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Hi-Ho Mistahey! tells the story of Shannen Koostachin and the Shannen’s Dream campaign. The film was written and directed by Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki First Nation and one of Canada’s most acclaimed documentary filmmakers.

“Hi-Ho Mistahey” was a favorite phrase of Shannen’s. It means “I love you forever” in Cree. Visit the National Film Board of Canada website to learn more.

Minister John Duncan promises the new school will be open in Attawapiskat for the 2013/2014 school year.