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Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change
After the Fur Trade: First Nations Women in Canadian History, 1850-1950
Annual Report 2005: Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Basil H. Johnston's Indian School Days (1988): An Autobiographical Account of Experiences at the Spanish Indian Residential School
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Blackwater v. Plint, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 3, 2005 SCC
Boarding School: Historical Trauma among Alaska’s Native People
Can University/Community Collaboration Create Spaces for Aboriginal Reconciliation? Case Study of the Healing of The Seven Generations and Four Directions Community Projects and Wilfrid Laurier University
Canada's Native Languages: Wrongs from the Past, Rights for the Future
The Canadian Holocaust: Retrieving Our Souls
Caughnawaga (Kahnawá:ke): Settler Accounts to 1900
Primarily newspaper articles.
Celebrating Our Path of Ahkamimoh in Northern Saskatchewan: Developing Resiliency in Youth through Education + Emocikihtayak Ahkamimohwin meskanaw Ote Kiwetinohk Saskatchewan: Sohkeyimowin Oskayak Ekiskinwahamacik
Examines the importance of a community-based education to enhance Indigenous resilience to the impact of colonization and residential schools.
Church Supports Lump Sum Deal
The Circle Game Revisited: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada
A Complex Ecological Framework of Aboriginal Family Resilience
Composition and Aleche: Native American Education, Scholarship and the Pedegogy of John Dewey
Court Rules Churches Still Liable for Abuse
Daughters of Indian Residential School Survivors: Healing Stories
A "Disastrous Mistake": A Brief History of Residential Schools
E.B. v. Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Province of British Columbia, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 45, 2005 SCC 60
Ecumenical Group May Recommend Public Inquiry into Residential Schools
Effects of Colonialism on the Métis in Canadian Northwest: Catholic Religion and Education System as the Main Colonial Instruments
Examining the Evidence: Understanding Daily Life in Residential Schools
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report
From Trickster Poetics to Transgressive Politics: Substantiating Survivance in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
Gathering Strength: Canada's Will to Reconcile, Recover and Repair
Healing the Generations: Post-Traumatic Stress and the Health Status of Aboriginal Populations in Canada
"The Hopi Followers": Chief Tawaquaptewa and Hopi Student Advancement at Sherman Institute, 1906-1909.
“I knew how to be moderate. And I knew how to obey”: The Commonality of American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1750s–1920s
"I Knew How to be Moderate. And I Knew How to Obey": The Commonality of American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1750s-1920s
Implications of the Supreme Court Decision in the Barney (Blackwater) Lawsuit
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, 2004-2005: Departmental Performance Report
"Into the Light of Christian Civilization": St. Elizabeth's Boarding School for Indian Children (1886--1967)
James Bay Cree Students and Higher Education: Issues of Identity and Culture Shock
[Kill the Indian, Save the Man]
The Logical Next Step: Reconciliation Payments for All Indian Residential School Survivors
Making Connections with Secwepemc Family Through Storytelling: A Journey in Transformative Rebuilding
Mixed Reaction to Compensation Package
Story reports on the residential school compensation deal reached by the Assembly of First Nations, the Federal Government, church organizations and 70 lawyers.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
The Newcomer Handbook: Indigenous People in Canada
Excellent resource for providing an overview of a broad range of topics such as treaties, residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Sixties Scoop, traditional cultural teachings and protocols.
Based on the work of five focus groups located in Saskatoon, Regina, North Battleford, Prince Albert, and La Ronge.
"A Response to TRC's Call-To-Action 93".
Ojibwa Participation in Methodist Residential Schools in Upper Canada, 1828-1860
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Professing An Interest in First Nations History: Reflections on Teaching Native/Settler Relations in a Canadian University
Reclaiming Connections: Understanding Residential School Trauma Among Aboriginal People: A Resource Manual
Reconciling Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Perspectives in Aboriginal Literacy Practice
[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
Remembering the Children Educator's Guide 2022
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
Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.