Radio clip on how the trauma from residential schools was passed from one generation to the next. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 4:45.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 1-4
Description
Keynote speaker's address opens this special issue which aims to showcase the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Family Violence and Aboriginal Communities: Building Our Knowledge and Direction through Community Based Research and Community Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
L. Jane McMillan
Description
Study conducted over five years consulted with over 150 Mi'kmaq through interviews, focus groups, and community forums in order to develop strategies to address violence.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 371-383
Description
Examines the role of American Indian grandparents who assume custodial responsibility of providing sole care for their grandchildren and the stressors and rewards of providing that care.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Description
Podcast discusses the research project kiskinohamâtôtâpânâsk: Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors.
Duration: unknown.
Accompanying material.
Documentary from the report, Bringing Them Home: Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families. Survivors speak about their experiences.
Duration: 32:29.
Links to audio of interviews with over 190 Aboriginals who were taken from their families by the Australian government in an effort to assimilate them.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-83
Description
Discusses similarities of two residential structures, government schools and foster homes, that have housed Aboriginal children when they were removed from their people. The paper is an attempt to influence child welfare practice in ways that would respect the integrity of family and Aboriginal communities.
Representative from the Indian Residential School Survivor's Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 20:51.
Part 2.
Part 3.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental, Spiritual and Cultural Health, 2014, pp. 66-79
Description
Looks at Aboriginal child rearing practices to determine if traditional ways are still in use and if so, how these practices differ from mainstream child rearing.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 31, 2019
Description
Cross-sectional study uses data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey collected from 4,840 youth aged 12-17. Findings indicate that interpersonal factors and historical contexts’ shape Indigenous Youth’s participation in sports and physical activity.
Elders, men and women, reminisce on their early lives involving hard work and strict discipline and voice regrets that the young people of today are not given enough guidance.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos- Unidentified Man with Children from the Lebret Industrial School
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Description
Black and white photograph of an Indigenous man in quasi-traditional clothing and three children (two girls, one boy) in full European apparel. The children attend the Qu'Appelle Industrial School. John Milloy identifies the man in this photo as Quewich and his children (A National Crime, page 29).
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Discusses similarities and differences between Canada's residential schools and the practice of fostering out Native American children to Mormon homes.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope For Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [18]-30
Description
Study shows that social identity plays an important role in the reunification process.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he talks about his childhood and lack of schooling, his development of horsemanship, his membership in holy societies and his alcoholism.
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he gives an account of the original Holy Lodge. (It is a follow-up to IH-AA.112)Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021, pp. 114-121
Description
A discussion of how colonialism created the conditions that were used to justify the removal of Indigenous children from their families, both historically and in modern times. The author use her own personal story as means to discuss its effects.
Journal of World History, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 219-237
Description
Discusses girls' experiences at residential schools, contrasts them to traditional child-rearing practices, and highlights the implications for subsequent generations.
Presents Angela White, from the Indian Residential School Survivors' Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 28:52
Part 1.
Part 2.
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. 40-44
Description
Comments on the human ability to heal from profound trauma and the role that one's personal spiritual experiences can play in the healing.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 40.
Indian Tribes and Statehood: A Symposium in Recognition of Oklahoma's Centennial
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ann Murray Haag
Tulsa Law Review, vol. 43, no. 1, Fall, 2007, pp. 149-168
Description
Discusses: history of the schools, consequences of removal for individuals and their families, impact of child placement services and welfare programs, and potential remedies.
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.