Shannen's Dream Timeline & Documents

Attawapiskat begins to prepare a School Capital Planning Study with funding from INAC.

Minister Andy Scott promises to build a new school but nothing is done.

The Auditor General of Canada releases a report on First Nations education, noting that limited progress had been made on the recommendations outlined in the previous report in 2000. Read the report.

INAC (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) erects 14 portable classrooms to be used as “temporary” classrooms between the contaminated property of the former school and an airstrip. These portables were still being up until 2014 and were in unacceptable condition.

The Auditor General of Canada releases a report on First Nations education. The report raises concerns over the wide gap in First Nations education, and provides recommendations to the Government of Canada. Read the report.

The Attawapiskat First Nation Education Authority closes the elementary school due to health and safety concerns related to fuel contamination.

Additional environmental consultants assess the property and recommend “Class 1, Action Required.” In addition to the contamination related to the fuel spillage, five species of mould were found.

Minister Robert Nault promises to build a new school but nothing is done.

With approval from INAC, a partial clean-up of the contaminated soil on the school property was completed.

Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) is published. The report notes that funding is “basic” for on-reserve education, and regulations permit little, if any, leeway for culture-based curriculum. Read the Volume 3 Chapter 5 of the RCAP report.