How Can Indigenous Reporters Care for Themselves While Covering Trauma — and How Can Their Newsrooms Help?

by Camille Baker
Dart Centre For Journalism and Trauma

In the last months, the remains of over a thousand people, including at least hundreds of Indigenous children, have been discovered on the properties of former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. These discoveries have brought to the fore — for now — a subject that has long remained at the margins of mainstream media coverage in the United States: the genocide of millions of Indigenous people by colonizers. Late last month, American Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that the U.S. government would investigate the sites of former schools in this country where many more children may be buried.