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Authentic First Peoples Resources for Grades 10 to 12 and Adult Learning
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Did You See Us?: Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School
English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide
Honouring: Project of Heart / Speaking to Memory
The Horrors of St. Anne's
I Want To Tell You A Story
Indigenous Literature and the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of Alberta, 2018.
On the Side of the Angels: A Memoir by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak: Teaching Guide
Designed for use with students in Grades 7 to 9.
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
Red Wolf
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut As Told by Nellie Winters, Transcribed and Edited by Erica Obendorfer: Teaching Guide
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Residential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Rights Before We Talk Reconciliation: Reporting on Indigenous Issues in Canada
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence and Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Teaching Guide
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
A Storytelling Approach to Second-Generations Survivors of Residential School: The Impact and Effects
Trauma, Loss, Resilience, and Resistance in the Beauval Indian Residential School
[Unreconciled: Family, Truth, Indigenous Resistance]
"We still need the game. As Indigenous people, it's in our blood." A Conversation on Hockey, Residential School, and Decolonization.
Who Gets to Tell the Stories? Carlisle Indian School: Imagining a Place of Memory Through Descendant Voices
Examines boarding school through the lenses of the student's descendants recollections of their families experiences. Through these means the stories will continued to be told once there are no more living alumni.