Shannen's Dream Timeline & Documents

Report on Priority Actions in View of Improving First Nations Education released by FNEC, NAN and FSIN as a parallel report to the National Panel on First Nations Education.

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society & KAIROS release, Honouring the Children, a shadow report to the Canada 3rd and 4th Periodic Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Canadian children release report, Our Dreams Matter Too, to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. The report demands an inquiry for First Nations children’s educational inequity in Canada. 

The Auditor General of Canada releases a status report noting that the federal government’s efforts to close the gap in education between First Nations and the general population have been “unsatisfactory”. Read Auditor General's the report.

Shannen’s Dream Day of Action. Hundreds of students gather at Parliament Hill in support of equal educational rights for First Nations children.

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society releases Jordan & Shannen: First Nations Children demand that the Canadian Government stop racially discriminating against them, a shadow report to the Canada 3rd and 4th Periodic Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Minister Chuck Strahl promises a new school for Attawapiskat First Nation in the House of Commons.

Shannen’s Dream is launched by children from Attawapiskat First Nation. The Canadian Coalition for Human Rights makes a special presentation of an award recognizing Shannen’s work advancing the education rights of children. Watch a video on Shannen’s Dream.

At the age of 15, Shannen dies tragically in a car accident while attending school away from home. 

Minister Chuck Strahl announces to First Nations chiefs that negotiations for a new school would begin immediately.