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699 Day Schools
A map of Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada with a corresponding RG-10 file for each location.
Banned Practice: The Potlatch and British Columbia, 1803-1953
Compilation of primary documents.
Caughnawaga (Kahnawá:ke): Settler Accounts to 1900
Primarily newspaper articles.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
Lists all 73 volumes edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, with subject descriptions and links to full text in the Internet Archive.
Native Outreach: A Report to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities
Paradise Bent: Gender Diversity in Samoa
Permission: A Blood Reserve Sourcebook Drawn from Settler Records
[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.
“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.