Looks at the colonization and assimilation of Aboriginal peoples in the education system; and discusses the problems, prospects, and future direction of Aboriginal learning in Canada.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. [29]-63
Description
Reviews alumni/ae publications free of boarding school censorship, supplemented by archival information to place students in Robert Warrior's nonfiction tradition.
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.
Expands on a previously published research brief.
Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
E Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009, pp. 38-71
Description
Discusses the historic compensation package agreed to by the Canadian federal government and the lack of any similar actions by the governments of the other two countries.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Anawak
Description
Describes life as a student at a residential school starting in 1959 and a reunion of students twenty-five years later.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Profiles past boarding school policies world-wide, discusses children's experiences, evaluates schools' success, and discusses current practises and ideologies.
Paedagogica Historica, vol. 45, no. 6, December 2009, pp. 757-772
Description
Discusses some contrasting educational policies and contexts across the Canada–USA border and shows some strategies Coast Salish people have used for resisting assimilation and returning to their own understandings of place and identity.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 427-461
Description
Looks at the governments attempt to create a one-size-fits-all category of societal Canadian citizenship, and reveals the extent to which First Nations peoples and immigrants were expected to conform to Canadian values and standards.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Himachal Pradesh University, 2009.
Focuses on Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever and Ravensong, and Beatrice C. Mosionier's In Search of April Raintree and In the Shadow of Evil.
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.
Examines the political, social, and economic influences on First Nation and Métis youth’s attitudes toward higher levels of education and career planning; and looks at some of the institutional and policy structures that support or hinder the ability of First Nation and Métis youth to finding pathways that will lead to sustained employment.
Discusses consequences of loss of culture through eradication of language, destruction of family unit, forced Christianization, and abuse.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
For use as part of the Grade Ten Social Studies curriculum. Divided into four chapters: Politics of War, School Life, Tuberculosis, Impact, Consequences & Legacy, as well as preview and post view lessons.
Discussion centers around the main characters' experiences in a residential school and the impact it had on the development of their identity in relation to Aboriginal culture and community.
Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.