E Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009, pp. 38-71
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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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2002, pp. 1-22
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Argues that education has been used as a tool for assimilation and that reflection on its power and control is necessary in resisting cultural homogenization.
Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era
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Roland D. Chrisjohn
Tanya Wasacase
Lisa Nussey
Andrea Smith
Marc Legault ... [et al.]
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Suggests that the genocide of Aboriginals in Canada has never stopped, but continues to exist in altered form.
Excerpt from Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era edited by Richard D. Wiggers and Ann L. Griffiths.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 427-461
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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.
Speech marking the one-year anniversary of Canada’s apology to the survivors of the Indian Residential Schools System comments on lack of progress in Federal government funding for Métis programs.
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Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97
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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.
Researcher relates oral histories about members of the Peepeekisis Reserve concerning the experimental agricultural farm that was established to continue the work of the residential schools and to keep students from returning to their "uncivilized" ways.
University of Western Sydney Law Review, vol. 2, 2002, p. [?]
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Brief discussion of the history of the process, demands for reparations, and government responses; argues that general principle of justice demands that reparations must made.
Compares the assimilation policies regarding child removal in the United States and Australia and looks at the effects it had on the children and their families.
Chapter seventeen in Children and War: A Historical Anthology edited by James Marten, foreword by Robert Coles.