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At the Crossroads: Native Americans and World War II
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
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 Children of Tomorrow's Great Potlatch
Demonstrating Success: The File Hills Farm Colony
Depression on South Dakota's Indian Reservations: The SDERA Survey of 1935
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.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - "Knitting and Spinning at St. Albert School"
Black and white photograph of a class of young Indigenous girls learning to knit and spin at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - "Learning Saddlery and Bootmaking, St. Albert School, 1898"
Black and white photograph of a class of Indigenous youths learning saddlery and bootmaking at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Boys at Work, Industrial School St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Dairying, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "High River Industrial School Football Team"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Knitting and Spinning Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Sewing Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report
[For Residential School Survivors, the Hurt Comes Back]
Indian Residential Schooling: The Native Perspective
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".
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Out of the "Graves of the Polluted Debauches": The Boys of the Cherokee Male Seminary
[Phil Fontaine Discusses His Childhood]
[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.
Remembering the Children Educator's Guide 2022
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.
Report From Queensland on the New Directions Workshop
The Residential School Controversy: A Special Report
A special edition of the Home Mission Journal on residential schools.
Reviews
Rules for the Indian School Service [1898]
Storying Living Memories about Indian Day Schools: Transforming Reconciliation
Canadian Studies Thesis (PhD) -- University of Ottawa, 2022.
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.
"To continue the life that we had always lived" : Seasonality at the Bear Island Summer School, 1903-1950
History Major Research Paper (MA) -- Nipissing University, 2022.