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"How Do I Put That Away" [Part 2]
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[Indian Residential School Personal Stories]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Hazel Squakin
Description
Presents a First Nations Elder speaking about her experience with residential schools and the impact on her life.
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Duration: 6:22.
The Indian Residential School System of Canada: The Search for Truth, the Need for Reconciliation
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[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.
Indigenizing the Academy: Indigenous Perspectives and Eurocentric Challenges
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Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Sákéj Henderson
Description
Presenters discuss issues of intellectual or cognitive imperialism; summarize the Eurocentric knowledge systems, religions, and doctrines on which historical and current education are built and the means of enforcement by which those frameworks are held in place. Stress the need for Universities to implement Indigenous ways of knowing and thinking in all colleges and disciplines in order to affect change.
Duration: 1:18:01
[Kevin Annett: The Truth About the Canadian Residential School Massacres]
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Face to Face
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jack Etkin
Kevin Annett
Description
Discusses the genocide of indigenous children and the film, Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide.
Duration: 54:41.
Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle
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[Kuper Island: Residential School Survivors Documentary]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Christine Welsh
Peter C. Campbell
Gumboot Productions
Description
Documentary looks at the healing journey of the survivors of Kuper Island residential school 20 years after its closure.
Duration: 43:33.
"Nobody's Children"
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Métis National Council
Description
Métis residential and day school survivors tell their stories.
Duration: 22:19.
[Revisiting a Dark Chapter in Canada's History]
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Inside Story Americas ; episode 17, February 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kimberly Murray
Cindy Blackstock
Frank Wallace
Description
In-depth news story on the history of Canada's residential schools; includes interview with a survivor and estimates the number of children who died in residential schools.
Duration: 25:00.
The Sacred Relationship
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Greg Miller
Allen Benson
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Description
Documentary on relationship between Aboriginal people and the land, water and rest of Canada.
Duration: 52:00.
The Seventh Fire: First Peoples and the Anglican Church
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Bird
Description
Video (30 min) explores the First Nations prophecy of spiritual rebirth for all North Americans. Includes historical background and interviews with residential school survivors.
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions & Promotion of Democratic Governance
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Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
[Setting the Stage: Canada's Experience]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marie Wilson
Description
Remarks by Marie Wilson, Truth and Reconciliation of Canada Commissioner, including how the Canadian TRC is unique to others in the world and the mandate and purpose of the TRC. Followed by excerpts from survivors stories.
Duration: 30:19.