Kekina’muek: Learning about the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia
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[Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq]
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An overview of the traditional forms and philosophies of education in Native communities in Nova Scotia, and the changes that have occurred since pre-contact and colonization to the present. Chapter Four of Kekina’muek: Learning about the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia
Background Paper (Indian and Eskimo Affairs) ; no. 2
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Department of Indian and Northern Canada
Policy Planning and Research
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This paper covers subjects such as early administration of Aboriginals in Canada, the development of an Indian Policy by Confederation in 1867, the 1951 Indian Act, and the implementation of the White Paper in 1969.
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 339-359
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Looks at residential schools and the people involved, as part of the policies of assimilation, enculturation or annihilation of Aboriginals. The author categorizes schools as 'intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas'.