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Fifty HIstorical Vignettes: Views of the Common People
Not Enough: All Words and No Action on MMIWG: Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Discusses the Government of Canada's record on implementing of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' Calls to Action.
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Post-Secondary Education Needs Assessment
Information compiled from secondary data sources such as Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2017 (APS) and Canadian Census of Population 2016 about off-reserve Status and Non-Status Indians, NunatuKavut Inuit, and Métis students represented by the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Discusses access, success, student needs, funding requirements, funding distribution and mechanisms, and existing programs.
RoadMap Project: Creating Paths for First Nations Prosperity
Goal of project is to support self-sufficiency and economic growth, improve fiscal capacity to govern while managing risk, increase transparency and accountability, and clarify governments' responsibility for service provision. Contains links to eight chapters and project summary.
Select Bibliography on Canadian Indian Treaties and Related Subjects
Extensive list covering many primary source documents found at the Public Archives of Canada, now known as the National Archives. There are also many rare 19th century and early 20th century secondary sources that may not be readily available in libraries outside of Ottawa.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.