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Child Protection Services
Department of Community Services and Seniors
Prince Edward Island First Nations
Description
Resource guide includes information on: Aboriginal Communities and Services, Spirituality, Aboriginal Culture, Cultural Beliefs and Practices, Mi'kmaq Language, Mi'kmaq History and Band Governance and Identity.
Aboriginal Genocide in Canada and Achieving Transitional Justice
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Author/Creator
Paula Fernandes Dewar
Description
Discusses whether it is reasonable to label the events of the Indian Residential Schools era as genocide.
Bachelor thesis towards an undergraduate degree in Human Rights--Malmö University, 2015.
Aboriginal Peoples and Historical Trauma: The Processes of Intergenerational Transmission
Alternate Title
Setting the Context
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Author/Creator
William Aguiar
Regine Halseth
Description
Overview of trauma, transmission, characteristics, and patterns of behaviour exhibited by those living with intergenerational trauma.
Aboriginal Perspectives: Understanding and Comparing the Lived Experiences and Resilience of Aboriginal Men and Women Attending Higher Education
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Author/Creator
Robyn Rowe
Description
Study attempts to point out resiliency factors despite intergenerational cycles of trauma.
Psychology Thesis (BA)--Laurentian University, 2015.
Addressing the Healing of Aboriginal Adults and Families Within a Community-Owned College Model
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Author/Creator
William Aguiar
Regine Halseth
Description
Uses Blue Quills First Nations College as a case study.
All My Relations: Celebrating Canada's Indigenous Peoples: Music Alive Program Teacher Guide
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Author/Creator
Sherryl Sewepagaham
Description
Various activities for grades four to twelve. Topics include First Nations people, Métis, residential schools, and rhythmic fun.Teachings and historical content based on Cree teachings.
"And Then the Pope Died": The Timeline for How Canada Reached a Settlement Agreement on Indian Residential Schools
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Author/Creator
Thomas L. McMahon
Description
"This paper tells the history of many factors and events that finally resulted in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement".
Becoming Comfortable With the Uncomfortable: Introducing the Topic of Residential Schools in Kindergarten: Lesson Study
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Author/Creator
Norah L'Espérance
Richard Messina
Raadiyah Nazeem
Renée Smith
Krista Spence
Carol Stephenson
Description
Uses two picture books, that focus on the experience, as the basis of the lesson.
Blanket Exercise Treaty 8 and Métis (Alberta) Adaptation: Facilitator Guide
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Author/Creator
Alberta Teachers' Association
Description
Adapted for the Alberta context from the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning experience focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada. Themes explored are: assimilation, discrimination, Indigenous rights and reconciliation.
Café Daughter Written by Kenneth T. Williams: Study Guide
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Author/Creator
Christine Frederick
Mitch Miyagawa
Patti Flather
Kenneth T. Williams
Description
Play about a Chinese-Cree girl growing up in Saskatchewan. It is a fictionalized account of Dr. Lillian Dyck's life.
Capturing Indigenous Health and Research Data: Suggestions for Escaping the Cycle of Mistrust
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Author/Creator
Glen Stratton
[?] Williams
Trevor Stratton
Description
Comments on the poor health conditions experienced by Indigenous people on a global scale, compared to non-Indigenous.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Manuscripts
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Description
Bibliography of programs, letters, government reports, student memory books, and other resources in the manuscript collection.
Cultural Manual for Foster and Adoptive Parents of Aboriginal Children
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Author/Creator
Nakuset
Marcell Durrum
Barbara McDonald Simon
Alana-Dawn Phillips
Irene Qavavauq
Description
Provides practical information and cultural insights.
Desk Guide for Legal Counsel Practicing in the IAP
Alternate Title
Desk Guide for Legal Counsel Practicing in the Independent Assessment Process
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Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Information and guidance about the Independent Assessment Process for individual claims of abuse involving the residential school system.
Version five.
Distribution des règlements des demandes du Processus d'évaluation indépendant (PEI) = Distribution of Independent Assessment Process (IAP) Settlements [Map 2: September 19, 2007- November, 2017]
Alternate Title
Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens = Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
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Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Description
Shows amount and number range for each province based on location of residential school for which compensation received.
Engaging Inuit Men and Boys in Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Gap Analysis
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Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Description
Describes the current state of crime and violence in Inuit communities and the programs and services that exist to reduce or eliminate violence against women and girls.
First Nations, Métis and Inuit Growth Chart Literacy Prompts: K-8
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Author/Creator
Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
Description
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
"Go Forward with Courage": K – 7: Entry Point Lesson Plans to Help Teachers Indigenize the Curriculum and Classroom
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Author/Creator
Jessica Johnson
Stephanie Maki
Heather Myhre
Description
Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.
Grade Eight Treaty Education Learning Resource
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Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Exploring Treaty Impacts and Alternatives" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
High School Teachers Working Towards Reconciliation: Examining the Teaching and Learning of Residential Schools
Alternate Title
McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 270
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
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Author/Creator
Tana Mitchell
Jennifer Tupper
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Explores how teachers engaging with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, teach about residential schools, how students understand themselves as Canadians while learning the history, and how classrooms can become a space for reconciliation.
IAP Statistics
Alternate Title
Independent Assessment Process Statistics
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Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Statistics for Independent Assessment Process for abuse claims by former residential school students. Lists claims received, resolved and in progress by province and territory, stage of progress, and total compensation paid. Includes links to historical data and charts.
Indian Horse Study Guide
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Author/Creator
[Elevation Pictures?]
Description
To accompany film based on the book of the same name by Richard Wagamese.
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat Annual Report: 2015: Annual Report of the Chief Adjudicator to the Independent Assessment Process Oversight Committee
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Author/Creator
Daniel Shapiro
Description
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide 11/12: Book 1
Alternate Title
Indian Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Learning Resources for Senior Secondary
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Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Three components: setting the stage for inquiry, relationship of 150 years, and research projects.
Unit developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Access Book Two.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide 11/12: Book 2: The Documentary Evidence
Alternate Title
150 Years' Relationship: Documentary Evidence
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Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Documents relating to the “Indian Question”, residential schools, The Bryce Report (health conditions in the schools), the McKenna McBride Commission, further restrictions imposed by the Indian Act, post-war activism, etc.
Backgrounders and primary sources for topics covered in Book One.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide [Social Studies] 10
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Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Four components: purpose of schools, assaults and their legacy, resistance and change, and action of reconciliation.
Unit developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide [Social Studies] 5
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Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Indian Residential Schools Were a Crime and Canada's Criminal Justice System Could Not Have Cared Less: The IRS Criminal Court Cases
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Author/Creator
Thomas L. McMahon
Description
"This paper presents a chronological history of the criminal law convictions relating to Canada's Indian residential schools."
Indigenous Peoples of Manitoba: A Guide for Newcomers
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Author/Creator
Anika Reynar
Zoe Matties
Description
Introduction to different cultural groups, their history, relationship with the Federal government and current situations.
The Intergenerational Effect of Forcible Assimilation Policy on Education
Alternate Title
Department Discussion Paper (Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria) ; DDP1501
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Author/Creator
Donna Feir
Description
Uses confidential data from 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey of Children and Youth to look at intergenerational effects of residential schooling. Found children of mothers who had attended the schools scored higher in health, but lower in educational outcomes.
[Legal documents relating to abuse of students at St. Anne's Indian Residential School]
Alternate Title
Erasing Cultural Genocide
R. v Anna Wesley
In Jesus's Name
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Author/Creator
[Susan Grace Enberg?]
Description
Survivors and their legal counsel were trying to access 40,000 pages of documentation of abuse which would have helped to corroborate their testimonies during the Independent Assessment Process. Canadian Federal Government had denied that there was any evidence of abuse.
Website includes court transcripts of Ann Wesley case, in which former nun was charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance.
Lessons Learned Study of the Common Experience Payment Process: Final Report
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Author/Creator
Evaluation
Performance Measurement
and Review Branch
Audit and Evaluation Sector
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Study determined the successes or failures of the design and implementation of the response to the Settlement Agreement.
Lost Innocence: The Teacher Guide
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Author/Creator
Sylvia Smith
Evan Thornton
Description
For use with Lost Innocence, a graphic novel about an Indian Residential School. For students aged 12 to 17.
Making Erasure Manifest: The Importance of Archives and Reenactiment in the Case of Canada's Indian Residential School Survivors
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Author/Creator
Susan G. Enberg
Description
Looks at limited access to incriminating archival documents about genocidal tactics used against Aboriginal people and promotes importance of archival preservation of all materials retrieved through IAP (Independent Assessment Process) proceedings.
Mistatim: Study Guide
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Author/Creator
Karen Gilodo
Description
Created to accompany play. Includes curriculum connections and expectations, brief information on residential schools, and pre- and post-show questions.
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
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Author/Creator
TeachRock
Description
Lesson uses interviews with Pat Vegas and Redbone from the documentary Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World as a jumping-off point to examine the U.S. government's efforts to control Native American culture by way of music.
Plain Talk 6: Residential Schools
Alternate Title
It's Our Time: First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 6
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Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Describes the history of Canada's residential schools which were financed by the federal government, but largely run by various religious organizations.
Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC
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Author/Creator
[Nancy Knickerbocker]
Description
Teacher resource.
Reconciliation on Whose Terms? the Death of Will Maquinna at the Ahousaht Indian Residential School
Alternate Title
Tri-University Annual Graduate History Conference
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Author/Creator
Mariah Guta
Description
Paper presented the the Tri-University Annual Graduate History Conference Waterloo, Ontario.
Looks at death in 1907 of young child and then ensuing crisis in community-school relations.
Towards A Deeper Understanding of the Indigenous Experience of Urban Homelessness
Alternate Title
Research on the Intergenerational Impact of Colonialism and Aboriginal Homelessness in Edmonton
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Blue Quills First Nations College
IRM Research and Evaluation Inc.
Description
Study focused on: linkages between intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools and involvement in child protection systems and homelessness; the effect on sense of identity and connection to heritage; promising practices in providing supports and services; and life factors and experiences which mitigate effects of intergenerational trauma.
Trauma, Child Development, Healing and Resilience: A Review of Literature with Focus on Indigenous Peoples and Communities
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Author/Creator
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Nicole Sherren
Deanna Yerichuk
Description
Search of literature published between 2010 and 2016 which focused on either Alberta or Canada produced 44 results. Results are arranged under the headings interconnected worldview, development of legal traditions, positive individual and collective identity, and self-determination.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
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Author/Creator
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Description
Report contains 94 specific recommendations to address the negative aftermath of Canada's residential school system.
Whose Land is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization
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Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Glen Coulthard
Russell Diabo
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Arthur Manuel ...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Kanahus Manuel
Beverly Jacobs
Glen Coulthard ...
Murray Sinclair
Pamela Palmater
Description
Contributors discuss the machinery of colonization and resistance movements, and comment on the possibility of reconciliation.