On Aug. 16, the federal government formally apologized to the Sayisi Dene for their role in the relocation, and a compensation package of $33 million was promised to survivors.

They are Manitoba's Sayisi Dene, survivors of a devastating government-forced relocation in 1956. And this summer, the federal government will compensate them for their ordeal.

The Sayisi Dene were not the only indigenous people in Manitoba to be relocated. In 1957, York Factory First Nation was moved inland to York Landing.

A photo of caribou carcasses lying on the side of Little Duck Lake began a domino effect of disastrous decisions that would nearly wipe out Manitoba's Sayisi Dene. The photo led to a devastating ...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government today apologized for its role in the forced relocation of the Sayisi Dene in the 1950s. The relocation, now considered an abject failure, saw hundreds of ...

About 250 Sayisi Dene were forced out of Duck Lake to a barren area near Churchill, partly because the Manitoba government believed they were causing a steep decline in the caribou herd — an ...

The Sayisi Dene people were uprooted from their traditional hunting land in Duck Lake in 1956. Band members said the fallout of the move devastated the Dene people and nearly wiped out the population.

Canada’s Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett apologizes to Manitoba’s Sayisi Dene for Ottawa’s role in the devastating forced relocation of the indigenous community in 1956.

In 1956, 250 Sayisi Dene people were put on airplanes in Little Duck Lake and dropped off on the shores of Churchill. What followed was starvation, violence, substance and death.

After being forcibly relocated to the outskirts of Churchill, the Sayisi Dene had no heat, electricity or protection from the elements. This image was taken between 1959 and 1961. (Carl MacKenzie) ...

The Sayisi Dene, most of whom spoke no English, were taken to the town of Churchill, Man., on the shores of Hudson Bay where they lived in tents and homemade shanties until the government moved ...

The compensation will be the federal government's first formal acknowledgement of the wrongs committed exactly 60 years ago this August. In March, members of the Sayisi Dene voted in favour of the ...