The Inconvenient Indian
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michelle Latimer
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
90th Parallel Productions
Stewart Henderson
Justine Pimlott ... [et al.]
Description
Documentary inspired by the non-fiction book of the same name by Thomas King explores historical attitudes and efforts to colonize Indigenous peoples and contemporary expressions of resistance.
Duration: 1h, 29 min.
The Indian Boarding School Era and Its Continuing Impact on Tribal Families and the Provision of Government Services
Alternate Title
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.
Indian Boarding School Life, 1961-1973
Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Mary Harjo
Description
Author discusses her boarding school experiences and its effect on her life.
Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
Alternate Title
[Contemporary American Indian History]
[Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the Yale National Initiative ; vol. 1, 2016]
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Prillaman
Description
Curriculum unit developed for high school students. Objective is for students to be able to answer the following questions: What is assimilation and its variety of terms and how are these sociological concepts related to Native American people? How was assimilation used as a discrimination tool against Native American people? How have Native American people resisted these assimilation attempts? and How have Native American people demonstrated their resilience to these assimilation policies over time?
Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilations, 1870 to the 1960s
Alternate Title
American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Wild Rivers Teaching American History Project
Description
A 2-4 day lesson plan for Grades 11 and 12; focuses on the American experience.
"Indian Children at Work in the School Gardens, Duck Lake."
Images » Photographs
Description
An panoramic image of the residential school gardens taken from the front entrance to the school looking out. Several Aboriginal children can be seen working in the courtyard, but they are distant and not clearly recognizable. A man, holding what appears to be a hoe, stands in the circular centre of the garden which is surrounded by a roadway.
'Indian Drum in the House': A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Apology for Canadian Residential Schools and the Public's Response
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Willow J. Anderson
The International Communication Gazette, vol. 74, no. 6, Intercultural Communication in a Conflict-Torn World , 2012, pp. 571-585
Description
Looks at whether Canadians reaffirm or contest the 2008 federal apology to the victims of residential schools.
Indian Education: A National Tragedy--A National Challenge: 1969 Report of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare ...
Alternate Title
Report No. 91-501
The Kennedy Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
United States Senate
Special Subcommittee on Indian Education
Description
Subcommittee produced extensive report which examined the history of residential, tribal and public education and made numerous recommendations to improve the system.
Indian Education Confronts the Seventies: History and Background of Indian Education: Volume 1
Alternate Title
Position Papers on Indian Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
Lehman L. Brightman
Robert K. Thomas
Description
Presents three positions papers:
Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria.
An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman.
Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
"Indian Industrial School, Brandon, Man."
Images » Photographs
Description
A colour illustration of the Brandon Indian Industrial School. It is on a hill and depicted in the summer.
The Indian Missionary Record (Vol. XIX, No. 5, May, 1956)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. 34, #11-12, November-December, 1971)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. 35, #3-4, March-April, 1972)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. 36, No. 3-4, March-April, 1973)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. 41, Nos 5-6, May-June, 1978)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXI, No. 9, November 1958)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXIV, No. IV, April, 1961)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, January, 1965)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indian of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decision. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXX, No. 10, December, 1967)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential school and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXX, No. 2, February, 1967)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXXI, No. 5, May, 1968)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXXI, No. 9, November, 1968)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXXII, No. 1, January, 1969)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (Vol. XXXII, Nos. 10 and 11, October-November, 1969)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Indian Record (XXXI, No. 10, December, 1968)
Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record .
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
The Indian Residential School Era: Gender Role Reeducation as Assimilation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dee Ansbergs
Description
Comments on the belief of Euro-Americans that they "were bringing an advanced and superior way of life to" Aboriginal people.
The Indian Residential School System of Canada: The Search for Truth, the Need for Reconciliation
Alternate Title
[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.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide 11/12: Book 1
Alternate Title
Indian Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Learning Resources for Senior Secondary
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Three components: setting the stage for inquiry, relationship of 150 years, and research projects.
Unit developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Access Book Two.
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide 11/12: Book 2: The Documentary Evidence
Alternate Title
150 Years' Relationship: Documentary Evidence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Documents relating to the “Indian Question”, residential schools, The Bryce Report (health conditions in the schools), the McKenna McBride Commission, further restrictions imposed by the Indian Act, post-war activism, etc.
Backgrounders and primary sources for topics covered in Book One.
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Geoff Hamilton
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 135-136
Description
Book review of: Indian Resilience and Rebuilding by Donald L. Fixico.
The Indian School at Chemawa
Articles » General
Author/Creator
[H. L. Wells]
West Shore, vol. 13, no. 1, January 1887, pp. 5-12
Description
Rationalizes need for boarding school system, describes school and its curriculum, and includes list of staff.
Reflects attitudes and policies of the time
Indian School, Company Town: Outing Students from Sherman Institute at Fontana Farms Company, 1907-1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Whalen
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Indigenous Genocidal Tracings: Slavery, Transracial Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act
Theses
Author/Creator
Soma de Bourbon
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013.
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Shekon Neechie
Description
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Indigenous Knowledge and Maple Syrup: A Case Study of the Effects of Colonization in Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Hayley Moody
Description
Social Justice and Community Engagement Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2015.
Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools: A Comparative Study
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Description
Profiles past boarding school policies world-wide, discusses children's experiences, evaluates schools' success, and discusses current practises and ideologies.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: First Nations
Alternate Title
First Nations: Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Indigenous Perspectives Education Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Historica Canada
Description
Teacher's resource includes lesson plans, classroom activities, links to online resources, and worksheets divided into five sections with associated themes: human geography (Indigenous peoples, civilizations and territories; contact to 1763 (encounters with Europeans); 1763 to 1876 (oral histories and biographies); 1876 to 1914 (policies and politics); 1914 to 1982 (separate and unequal); and 1980s to present day (toward reconciliation).
Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Marker
Paedagogica Historica, vol. 45, no. 6, December 2009, pp. 757-772
Description
Discusses some contrasting educational policies and contexts across the Canada–USA border and shows some strategies Coast Salish people have used for resisting assimilation and returning to their own understandings of place and identity.
An Inspiration Named Chubby
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Theodore Fontaine
Description
Author's account of his and a friend's time spent in residential schools and how therapeutic talks helped to start the healing journey.
Intergenerational Imprisonment: Resistance and Resilience in Indigenous Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Mussell
Journal of Law and Social Policy, vol. 33, 2020, pp. 15-37
Description
An analysis on how the imprisonment of Indigenous women has been another tool for removing Indigenous people from their communities and its rippling effects throughout Indigenous history.
Intervention to Address Intergenerational Trauma: Overcoming, Resisting, & Preventing Structural Violence
Documents & Presentations
Description
Discusses the best practices for addressing the adverse traumatic experiences from historical oppression.
Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosemary Nagy
Robinder Kaur Sehdev
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 67-73
Description
Brief introduction to the articles in section of volume which discuss the experiences of residential school survivors, the challenges of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the politics of reconciliation.
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[Is There a Traditional Perspective of Truth and Reconciliation?]
Alternate Title
[Indigenous Knowledge Seminar Series, University of Manitoba]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about background, mandate and approach of Commission. Also explains the history of governments' attempts to eradicate Aboriginal culture by forced assimilation of children through the residential school system.
Duration: 1:39:29.
"It Was Two Different Times of the Day, But in the Same Place": Coast Salish High School Experience in the 1970s
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Marker
BC Studies, no. 144, Being Young: Journeys to Young Adulthood, Winter, 2004/2005, pp. 91-113
Description
Discusses federal Indian education policies and racism in small town high schools. Compares the state of Washington with the province of British Columbia.
Jim Miller: Canada Research Chair Native-Newcomer Relations
Alternate Title
Engaging Minds: Profiles of Discovery and Creativity at the University of Saskatchewan
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
U of S Research Communications
and the Division of Media and Technology
Description
Short video about research on treaty rights and the abuse that occurred at residential schools.
Jim Thorpe: The Greatest Athlete Ever?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Katie Goodson
Description
Discusses athlete's achievements and personal troubles. Sample paper for elementary classes.
A Journey towards Reconciliation: A Shared History
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rainy River District School Board
Description
Lesson plans for use in intermediate level classrooms.
[Justice Murray Sinclair and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada]. Reconciliation Part I
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presents part I of interview with the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, regarding the direction towards reconciliation for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Duration: 19:46.