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Expressions of Policy Effects: Hearing Memories of Indian Residential Schools
Compares the treatment of Jewish people in the fictional story of Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald with children's experiences in residential schools in Canada, and Indian boarding schools in the United States.
Chapter from Productive Remembering and Social Agency edited by Teresa Strong-Wilson, Claudia Mitchell, Susann Allnutt, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan.
Healing Historic Trauma: A Report From The Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Proposes new paradigm of healing which acknowledges successive trauma and relies on cultural resources and western therapies for resilience building.
Chapter five from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Editor's Note: The following chapter differs from others in this volume. Rather than being presentations given at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference (2006).
Reconciliation with Residential School Survivors: A Progress Report
Brief discussion of how schools functioned, abuses that took place, churches and government's response to law suits, settlement agreements and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Chapter eight from A History of Treaties and Policies, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.
School Success and the Intergenerational Effect ofResidential Schooling
Based on data from 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey on Children and Youth relevant to children aged 6 to 14 living off-reserve. Chapter three from Learning, Technology, and Traditions, which is vol. 6 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.