Awarding-Winning Novelist on the Link Between Residential Schools and the Devastation of Native Suicide
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Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Maclean's, vol. 123, no. 25/26, July 5, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Award-winning novelist believes that there is a direct correlation between the high Aboriginal youth suicide-rate and the legacy of residential schools.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 171-192
Description
Looks at the education system, at the turn of the century, through the eyes of Charlie Twist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who enrolled in the Rapid City Indian School in 1909.
Authors look at the retention and graduation rates of American Indian post-secondary students and suggests recommendations to increase retention rates.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 49, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 50-68
Description
Discusses whether the program changed attitudes toward American Indians among young learners and therefore potentially improve interracial relationships among Native Americans and non-Native Americans.
Colloquium on Improving the Educational Outcomes of Aboriginal People Living Off-Reserve
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit
Description
Colloquium had six themes: policy questions, context of K-12 education, curriculum questions, transitions from education on-reserve to off-reserve, governance and service delivery and publicly regulated education systems.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 83-99, 154
Description
Discusses the successes and failures by the provincial government on their attempts to modernize schools, and promote racial tolerance and cross-cultural understanding.
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill
Presents a short story titled, The Indian in the Child, written by the seventeen-year-old winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge, Stephanie Wood.
Call for a Federal policy to recognize the cultural importance of Indian languages and to expand the teaching of them beyond the current situation where only those people of Indian ancestry in Saskatchewan Provincial schools are funded for instruction.
Looks at suits filed by residential school survivors against the Canadian government for loss of culture, spirituality and physical and sexual abuse.
Duration: 7:13.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury..
Discusses how being raised in a unhealthy social environment and having cultural practices repressed contributed to Aboriginal criminality.
Duration: 6:35.
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 5, Special Issue on Marginalized Youth, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Canada's failure to address training and educational needs of First Nation, Métis and Inuit learners resulting in under performance, drop out rate and under-representation at higher learning institutions.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 88-95
Description
Looks at how a community-based model of education can provide an avenue for integrating Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing into a Western-based educational system.