[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Karen Busby
Description
Podcast speaks about issues surrounding the records including access to the records, five restrictions on the records, protocols, and the independent assessment process.
Duration: unknown.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Karen Busby
Description
Podcast presents an overview of the "Critical Conversations Series" and outlines some of the key features of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA)
Duration unknown.
Dialogue of 120 community leaders identified shared principles and approaches to support injustices in Canadian society.
Speaker discusses the "real" history of Canada including residential schools and the head tax.
Duration: 12:00.
Dialogue of 120 community leaders identified shared principles and approaches to support injustices in Canadian society. Presents a speech by a holocaust survivor.
Duration: 15:11.
University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, Special Issue: The Residential School Litigation and Settlement, 2014, pp. 596-619
Description
Discusses shortfalls in the handling of processes for dealing with residential school litigation and dispute resolution involving survivors, their families and claims.
University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, Special Issue; The Residential School Litigation and Settlement, 2014, pp. 486-504
Description
Discusses different viewpoints by the courts, churches and governments for responsibility of residential schools in Canada and suggests using customary law to help speak to this responsibility.
Dorchester Review, vol. 4, no. 2, Autumn/Winter, 2014, pp. 25-29
Description
Argues that it might be time refocus attention away from residential schools, and incorporate three elements into conversations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people: roots of marginalization (including residential schools), contemporary social, economic and cultural challenges, and significant examples of success.
Institute for the Study of International Development Conference 2014
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
[Question and Answer Period]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Joe Clark
Andrew Lee
Description
Remarks by Joe Clark and Andrew Lee regarding the important role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission followed by a question and answer period facilitated by the Commissioners.
Duration: 1:10:48.
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
[Setting the Stage: Canada's Experience]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wilton Littlechild
Description
Webcast focuses on discussing three points: where the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission is situated on the international stage, the special visit to Canada by the UN Special Rapporteur, James Anaya, and the interim report recommendations on the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Duration: 18:25.
University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, Special Issue: The Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement, 2014, pp. 505-528
Description
Chief negotiator of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement for the Assembly of First Nations discusses personal experiences and important role the Assembly played.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 2, 1970, pp. 123-135
Description
Considers some of the physiological, social psychological, and cultural changes in Inuit children as a result of attending the residential school in Inuvik.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 1-18
Description
Study based on interviews with 25 individuals from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Canada and 20 individuals from the Inari municipality in Finland.
The Long-term Effects of Indian Residential Schools: Exploring the Contribution of Student-to-Student Abuse
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Amy Bombay
Description
Annual meeting of Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (NAMHR) held in Montreal, Quebec, June 13, 2014. Discusses results from qualitative study about peer abuse verses staff abuse. Scroll down to access video.
Duration: 20:04.
Canadian Issues, Perspectives on the History of Education in Canada, Spring, 2014, pp. 31-36
Description
Outlines government efforts to assimilate and repress Aboriginals and argues that their identities have remained intact.
To access article scroll to p. 31.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Jocelyn Thorpe]
Description
Podcast discusses ideas such as: what is nature versus culture' and 'what are gender, race and nation' as well as thoughts on decolonization.
Duration: 18:00.
Summarizes presentations made at a five day forum in which youth from 62 northern communities shared lived experiences and issues affecting their lives.
Looks at the effects of processes and institutions on two cases of transitional justice in democracies through the attempt to remove cultural influences on children and community by isolation from ethnic groups.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 181-197
Description
"In this paper, I argue that Indian Residential School (IRS) litigation, and the emphasis on "cultural loss" or genocide, threatened to expose the illegitimacy of Canada's claim to sovereignty and the settler collective's occupancy of Indigenous lands today".
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 29, no. 2, Law and Deconlonization, August 2014, pp. 199-217
Description
Looks at the shift from a judicially based public inquiry to a truth and reconciliation and the gaps in the composition of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
[Setting the Stage: Canada's Experience]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marie Wilson
Description
Remarks by Marie Wilson, Truth and Reconciliation of Canada Commissioner, including how the Canadian TRC is unique to others in the world and the mandate and purpose of the TRC. Followed by excerpts from survivors stories.
Duration: 30:19.
Three parts: background and content of 1988 Apology to former students, families and communities; outline of steps taken by the church since then; reflections on challenges still facing the church as whole and its Aboriginal members.
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, no. 1, Special Issue Title: Indigenous Peoples, Genocide in California, and Politics of the Academy: Inters, January 2014, pp. 145-170
Description
Analyzes photographs taken between the 1890s and 1950s to illustrate how they reflect belief systems and the context in which they were taken.
International Journal of Rule of Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights, vol. 5, no. 5, December 2014, pp. 67-77
Description
Summarizes some of the findings and interim recommendations made by the Commission prior to the publishing of the final report.
Article located by scrolling to page 67.