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.
Ethnohistory, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 263-304
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Looks at the interaction between the United States government and aboriginals during the assimilation period, and the ways in which their employment was an important but short-lived component of United States Indian policy.
Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era
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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 Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 215-225
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Provides an overview of the development of First Nation control over education with the establishment of Band-controlled schools and argues the schools are simply a means to continue the federal assimilation policy.
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.