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Advancing Reconciliation Resource for School Councils
American Indian Boarding Schools: What Went Wrong? What Is Going Right?
Looks at the use of Indigenous led educational approaches to combat the effects of boarding and residential schools.
Approaches to Healing after a Trauma: Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Benevolent Benedictines?: Vulnerable Missions and Aboriginal Policy in the Time of A.O. Neville
Beyond School Walls: Indigenous Mobility at Sherman Institute
Big Brother's Hunger
The Boarding School as Metaphor
An overview of boarding school experiences from different perspectives.
Bringing Balance to the Scales of Justice: Fulfilling Our Responsibility to Indigenous People Involved in the Justice System
Caughnawaga (Kahnawá:ke): Settler Accounts to 1900
Primarily newspaper articles.
Celebrating Our Path of Ahkamimoh in Northern Saskatchewan: Developing Resiliency in Youth through Education + Emocikihtayak Ahkamimohwin meskanaw Ote Kiwetinohk Saskatchewan: Sohkeyimowin Oskayak Ekiskinwahamacik
Examines the importance of a community-based education to enhance Indigenous resilience to the impact of colonization and residential schools.
The Construction of “Trauma” in Canadian Residential School Survivors and Impacts on Healing Interventions and Reconciliation Initiatives
The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
Cultural Genocide in Canada? It Did Happen Here
Decolonizing the Classroom Curriculum: Indigenous Knowledges, Colonizing Logics, and Ethical Spaces
Digital Decolonization and Activist Tagging in the Post-Apology Residential School Database
Displaying Truth and Reconciliation: Experiences of Engagement between Alberni Indian Residential School Survivors and Museum Professionals Curating the Canadian History Hall
Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Native American Boarding School Stories
An introduction to the articles on the legacy of boarding school and residential schools in North America.
English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide
Examining the Evidence: Understanding Daily Life in Residential Schools
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Fear and Loathing in Lamanite Territory: Lessons From Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Mormon Indian Placement Program and Beyond
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report
Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project
Historians and Indigenous Genocide in Saskatchewan
Honouring: Project of Heart / Speaking to Memory
The Horrors of St. Anne's
How Colonization Impacts Identity Through the Generations: A Closer Look at Historical Trauma and Education
Education Thesis (PhD) -- University of Denver, 2018.
I Breath for Them
Indian Boarding Schools, Before and After: A Personal Introduction
The author reflects his father's experience in the American boarding school system.
Indigenous Literature and the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of Alberta, 2018.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: First Nations
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Guide
Includes discussion questions and activity ideas for each volume of the atlas.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Truth and Reconciliation
Methodist Indian Day Schools and Indian Communities in Northern Manitoba, 1890-1925
Graduate Studies Thesis (MA) -- University of Manitoba, 1986.
The Newcomer Handbook: Indigenous People in Canada
Excellent resource for providing an overview of a broad range of topics such as treaties, residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Sixties Scoop, traditional cultural teachings and protocols.
Based on the work of five focus groups located in Saskatoon, Regina, North Battleford, Prince Albert, and La Ronge.
"A Response to TRC's Call-To-Action 93".
No More “Die Bread”: How Boarding Schools Impacted Native Diet and the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
A personal reflections on the impact of boarding school diets on Indigenous tastes and health.
Off to School: Filmic False Equivalence and Indian Residential School Scholarship
On the Call for a Residential Schools National Monument
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
Problem Solver or "Evil Genius": Thomas Jesse Jones and The Problem of Indian Administration
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Indian Residential Schools and Youth Protection Services
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
Reexamines the ideologies of Carlisle Indian Industrial School's first superintendent and his relationships with Indigenous communities.
[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
“Recruited to Teach the Indians”: An African American Genealogy of Navajo Nation Boarding Schools
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
Red Wolf
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.