Building Birch Bark Canoes: Oral Histories, Colonial Archives, and Stories of Survivance
Communication Thesis (M.A) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Communication Thesis (M.A) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Compilation of primary sources, mainly newspaper articles.
Designed to assist researchers and archivists by cross-referencing field offices to names of bands and the duration of their responsibility.
Discusses documents found in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Archives de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Public Archives of Canada, Archives de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, and Les Archives du Séminaire de Québec and the periods in Riel's life which are not represented in any collections. Two appendices list documents and the repositories in which they are found. Research was conducted as part of the Riel Project and published as The Collected Papers of Louis Riel.
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of Manitoba, 1993.