Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2006-2007, pp. 45-129
Description
Brief overview of government policies aimed at eradicating Native Americans, discussion of how schools fit into achieving these goals, and possibilities for achieving redress through litigation.
Educational Foundations, vol. 20, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, p. 69
Description
Looks at the inner psychic conflicts of American Indian boarding school students in Indian boarding school environments, the interactions between aspects of the school environment, and the cultural and political beliefs complex process of assimilation that occurs in Indian boarding school residential settings.
Ethnohistory, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 263-304
Description
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.
Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Description
Compares the forced removal of American Indian and Aboriginal children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that governments intentionally removed indigenous children to institutions as acts of colonial control, not assimilation.
Chapter from Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc.
American Educational History Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2006, pp. 97-105
Description
Discusses the use of print media to promote educational reforms, substitution of community day schools for boarding schools, replacement of curriculum to promote Aboriginal culture, and the use of vocational programs to benefit Aboriginal communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 138-152
Description
Using his own studies and struggle to learn the Dakota language as jumping-off point, the author wrestles with the role that historic educational institutions had in removing Indigenous languages and to what extent their contemporary counterparts owe apology and reparation.
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.
Looks at Canada's "in-principle" agreement regarding compensation from residential schools and compares this to Australia's compensation recommendations from the "Bringing Them Home" report.
Canadian Journal of School Psychology, vol. 21, no. 1/2, December 2006, pp. 18-32
Description
Uses psychological research and theory to explain the consequences of the school system in terms of: poor academic performance and inability to continue education, which in turn affects employment opportunities and future income.
"Our search produced 174 works which have been listed in the final bibliography. These include 39 books, 8 conference proceedings, one Internet site, 88 journal articles, four manuscripts, one play, one radio transcript, 14 reports, one sound recording, 11 theses and dissertations, and six videos."
Oral History Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter, 1997, pp. 117-123
Description
Book reviews of:
They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by K. Tsianina Lomawaima
To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 by Clyde Ellis
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by J.R. Miller.
Deakin Law Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 2006, pp. 131-177
Description
Looks at various issues pertaining to assimilation in Canada and Australia, and discusses how Canadian aboriginal claimants, unlike those in Australia, have successfully brought actions for compensation against the federal government.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 153-165
Description
Memoir piece in which the author describes the process of learning Tuscarora as a child, relearning it as an adult, and the choices they continue to make around language use and cultural survivance.
Full version (1 hr. 48 min.) of documentary about abuse at residential schools which won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Best Director for an International Documentary at the New York International Film Festival.
Based on Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.