A guide to accompany the film Kinàmàgawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom to help instructors and facilitators deal with Aboriginal issues in the classroom and provides techniques and objectives for enhancing classroom dynamics.
Guide suggested for Grade 9 students. Film, directed by Lori Lewis, deals with segregation of Aboriginal athletes and the abuse suffered in the residential school system
Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners.
Study Guide.
Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication ; 49th, 1998
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Goodburn
Description
Presents letters written by students that were sometimes used as propaganda to promote public awareness about American Indian education.
Paper from the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1998.
Author compares the experiences of her grandmother to those of the character Martha in Sterling's work and asserts that while Martha 's story it is not representative of all the children, it provides a useful introduction to the subject of residential schools.
Student handout questions to accompany Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, are intended for grades 6-8.
Suggested answers appear in record entitled Literature Circle Guide to: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac.
Guide for play by Rachel Atkins, which focuses on a girl's experiences at a government-run boarding school and her cousin's role as a "code talker" during World War II. Includes integration and supplemental drama activities.
Bibliography.
She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.
British Columbia Historical News, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. 6-9
Description
Explains how two groups of girls, one made up of First Nations and the other made up of white, could share the same boarding school for years and not talk to one another.
Excerpt from Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear. Published by University of Nebraska Press. Author discusses his time at Carlilse Indian Industrial School.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 102, March 27, 2010, pp. [1]-21
Description
Looks at the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons minutes and proceedings from 1949 which recommended a move away from segregated to integrated schools for Aboriginal children.
Discusses the Indian Helper, a newspaper published at the school, and the information it conveys in terms of the "civilizing campaign" and the children's responses.
Excerpt from: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Education Experiences edited by Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.
Mark Wolfleg talks about the Blackfoot interpretation of the terms of Treaty #7; also the roles of the Crowfoot and a group of Metis in taking Treaty #7. He also talks about his overseas experiences during World War II.
Argues that while the role of official apologies is controversial, it nevertheless plays a part in the broader reconciliation process. Uses Canadian and the Australian experience as case studies.
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 26, Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches, 2010/2011, pp. 9-25
Description
Argues the process should be an opportunity to change the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, but this change hinges on the general public's acceptance of the need to redefine history and national identity.
Consists of an interview where she tells of an encounter between James Douglas and the Indians. She also discusses various early missionaries who came to her people.
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Special Issue: The Sixties Scoop and Indigenous Child Welfare, 2016, pp. 45-59
Description
Looks at present child assessment practices that are based on western child rearing views and the differences with Aboriginal culture. References the Blackfoot in Alberta.
Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, vol. 16, no. 4, December 1, 1974, pp. 66-71
Description
Describes the policies, practises and curriculum of the school, as well as the philosophy of its founder, Rev. E. F. Wilson. Brief mention of the the Wawanosh School for girls.
The Social Science Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, January 1999, p. 33
Description
Discusses various recollections of the teacher-student relationships Native American's had with their former teachers in boarding school settings, and looks at the process of assimilation fostered within the context of an all-Indian boarding school.
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97
Description
Looks at how Aboriginal groups experienced assimilation in different ways and discusses the separation between cultural and physical forms of destruction.