MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clark Paul
Karen Burnard
Michael R. Denny
Description
Clark Paul shares his emotional and inspiring story of his experience at residential school. Stephen Augustine provides an overview of residential schools in Canada.
Presentations begin at 20:35.
Duration: 2:41:51.
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference ; 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Paul Voudrach
Description
Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses its unique mandate, problems with defining and contextualizing reconciliation, how schools affected children, and intergenerational trauma.
Duration: 1:03:16.
Executive Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation outlines historical background to the formation of the Commission; professor of law explains various aspects of the Settlement Agreement, the meaning of restorative justice and the need for establishing and maintaining a new relationship between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals.
Duration: 55:52.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, Indigenous Pedagogies Resurgence and Restoration, 2012, pp. 23-41, 224
Description
Discusses the history of settler control for Indigenous education and how local Native communities now design and institute culturally appropriate curricula for their youth in the educational system.