Community Archival Practice: Indigenous Grassroots Collaboration at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista McCracken
American Archivist, vol. 78, no. 1, 2015, pp. 181-191
Description
Case study emphasizes the importance of archival practices which follow cultural and ethical best practices and involve the community in order to correct past biases and ensure that Indigenous voices are present in the historical record.
Comparison Analysis of "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Killing the White Man's Indian"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dee Ansbergs
Description
Compares two books, written more than twenty years apart, for their strengths, weaknesses, biases, and value to Native American Studies.
Compulsive Measures: Resisting Residential Schools at One Arrow Reserve, 1889-1896
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trevor John Williams
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 197-222
Description
Details the various tactics used by Indian Agent R.S. Mackenzie: coerced baptisms, arrests, police manhunts, and withholding rations.
Conflict, Tension, Strength: The History of St. Paul's Mission, St. Labre Indian School, and St. Stephens Indian School, 1884-Present
Theses
Author/Creator
Donna Patricia Peterson
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2015.
Conquest Through Benevolence: The Indian Residential School Apology and the (Re)Making of the Innocent Canadian Settler Subject
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura McKinley
Description
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Thesis (M.A.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2014.
Contemporary Practice of Traditional Aboriginal Child Rearing: A Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Muir
Yvonne Bohr
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental, Spiritual and Cultural Health, 2014, pp. 66-79
Description
Looks at Aboriginal child rearing practices to determine if traditional ways are still in use and if so, how these practices differ from mainstream child rearing.
Counselling Within Inuit Systems in Canada's North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anya Brooker
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [110]-121
Description
Contends that using a family systems therapy approach would benefit the territory of Nunavut.
Cultural Manual for Foster and Adoptive Parents of Aboriginal Children
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nakuset
Marcell Durrum
Barbara McDonald Simon
Alana-Dawn Phillips
Irene Qavavauq
Description
Provides practical information and cultural insights.
A Cup of Cold Water: Alfred Kirkness and the Brandon Residential School Cemeteries
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Lindsay
Clare Cook
David Cuthbert
Manitoba History, no. 78, Summer, 2015, pp. 29-38
Description
Describes one former pupil's lengthy struggle to have the sites recognized and maintained, and students properly commemorated.
[Curatorial Decision Making: Indian Residential Schools]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Adam Muller
Struan Sinclair
Andrew Woolford
Description
Presents a podcast that is part of the Embodying Empathy Project.
Duration: 1:04:32.
Current Issues in Mental Health in Canada: The Mental Health of First Nations and Inuit Communities
Alternate Title
In Brief (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; no. 2014-02-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Norah Kielland
Tonina Simeone
Description
Brief overview of the unique contextual factors underlying the mental health challenges faced by First Nations and Inuit communities.
Dealing With Difficult Emotions: Anger at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie Reynaud
Anthropologica, vol. 56, no. 2, 2014, pp. 369-382
Description
Attempts to understanding how survivors felt after giving their statements to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
[Decolonizing Archives]
Alternate Title
[5th Annual Critical Conversations Series]
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Greg Bak]
Description
Podcast discusses the destructing of archives which amounted to lost records of residential school students experiences.
Duration: 25:29
Accompanying material.
Decolonizing the Contact Hypothesis: A Critical Interpretation of Settler Youths' Experiences of Immersion in Indigenous Communities in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joel John Badali
Community Psychology in Global Perspective, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, pp. 64-85
Description
Proposes that cultural immersion can ameliorate relations and foster intercultural understanding to decolonize Canadian youth.
Desk Guide for Legal Counsel Practicing in the IAP
Alternate Title
Desk Guide for Legal Counsel Practicing in the Independent Assessment Process
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Information and guidance about the Independent Assessment Process for individual claims of abuse involving the residential school system.
Version five.
Do Discrimination, Residential School Attendance and Cultural Disruption Add to Individual-Level Diabetes Risk among Aboriginal People in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roland F. Dyck
Chandima Karunanayake
Bonnie Janzen
Josh Lawson
Vivian R. Ramsden
Donna C. Rennie
Jenny Gardipy
Laura McCallum
Sylvia Abonyi
James A. Dosman
Jo-Ann Episkenew
Punam Pahwa
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
Description
Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
"Don't Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Magdalena Milosz
Description
Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Waterloo, 2015.
Looks at the Mohawk Institute Residential School, Birtle Indian Residential School, Brandon Indian Residential School, and Shingwauk Indian Residential School.
“Each has a house of her own”: Purpose, Domesticity and
Agency of First Nations Women in Canada’s Industrial School
System, 1883-1923
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sarah Nason
Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, vol. 2, December 2014, pp. [20]-37
Description
Discusses government's and churches' goals for female students, and their failure to achieve them. Focuses on schools located in Fort Qu'Appelle and North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and High River, Alberta.
The Economics of Reconciliation: Tracing Investment in Indigenous-settler Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Green
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 473-493
Description
Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.
Editorial: Resilience and Triumph: Moving Forward in a Good Way
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Madelynn Slade
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental, Spiritual and Cultural Health, 2014, pp. 5-6
Description
Highlights the theme of the issue that focuses on children and youth.
Education as Reconciliation: Resorting Inuit Nunangat
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jay McKechnie
Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 56-67
Description
Contends that education can create a path towards reconciling past historical trauma.
Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools
Alternate Title
Indigenous Confluences
E-Books
Author/Creator
John R. Gram
Education for Elimination in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i: Settler Colonialism and the Native Hawaiian Chiefs' Children's Boarding School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Kaomea
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2014, pp. 123-144
Description
Connects the decline in ali'i births to the residential Hawaiian missionary run Chiefs' Children's School where colonial Puritan policies eventually put an end to future generations of Hawaiian rulers.
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joseph Auguste Merasty
Engaging Inuit Men and Boys in Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Gap Analysis
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Description
Describes the current state of crime and violence in Inuit communities and the programs and services that exist to reduce or eliminate violence against women and girls.
[Establishment of the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation]
Alternate Title
[5th Annual Critical Conversations Series]
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Ry [Moran]
Description
Overview of the work of the NRC and discussion of the two documents that are the governing mandate for the Centre.
Duration: 11:30.
An Ethical Space for Dialogue about Difficult History: Fostering Critical Thinking Amongst Students in Canada's Northwest Territories & Nunavut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Daitch
Arctic Yearbook, 2014, pp. [1]-24
Description
Discusses a curriculum module which looks at assimilation practices and the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families to residential schools.
Ethnocentrism and Off-Reservation Indian Boarding Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicholas C. Davidson
Description
Education and Human Development Thesis (M.Sc.)--New York College at Brockport, 2014.
Etlinisigu'niet [Bleed Down]
Alternate Title
Souvenir Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jeff Barnaby
Description
Looks at Aboriginal identity and representation using the National Film Board's archival footage.
Duration: 5:00.
Feathers, Beads and False Dichotomies: Indigenizing Urban Aboriginal Child Welfare in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Jeffrey J. Schiffer
Description
[Anthropology and Education] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2014.
Focuses on the Pacific Aboriginal Child Welfare Association.
Fighting a Two-Front War: Dr. Albert D. Lake, Thomas Indian School Physician, 1880–1922
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurence Marc Hauptman
New York History, vol. 95, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 408-431
Description
Discusses the New York state-appointed doctor's efforts to protect children from contagious diseases and advocate for improvements in health care delivery to Native American population.
Finding the Balance: Student Voices and Cultural Loss at Sherman Institute
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Whalen
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, no. 1, 2014, pp. 124-144
Description
An examination on how scholars can find the balance between the positive effects and the loss of culture when addressing the experiences of Indigenous boarding school students.
Finding Their Way Home: The Reunification of First Nations Adoptees
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ashley L. Landers
Sharon M. Danes
Sandy White Hawk
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope For Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [18]-30
Description
Study shows that social identity plays an important role in the reunification process.
First Nations Women, Games, and Sport in Pre- and Post-Colonial North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thierry Terret
Frabrice Delsahut
Women's History Review, vol. 23, no. 6, 2014, pp. 976-995
Description
Using a gendered approach to look at the history of Indigenous women's participation and impact on sports culture. Focuses on the Indigenous boarding school basketball team the Fort Shaw Blues.
First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kory Wilson
Jane Henderson
Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 ONSC 283
Alternate Title
Court File Number: 00-CV-129059
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Description
Judgement in case where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and various other claimants under the Independent Assessment Process brought a suit to force the Canadian government and the Ontario Provincial Police to produce documents relating to abuse of students at St. Anne's Indian Residential School.
Forgotten Métis
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Legacy of Hope Foundation
Description
Virtual exhibition about the experience of children forced into residential schools. Includes link to history timeline and resources.
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience
E-Books
Author/Creator
Legacy of Hope Foundation
Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience: Workshop Guide
E-Books
Author/Creator
Legacy of Hope Foundation
Forward Motion: Cultural Memory and Continuity in Mi'gmaq Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Blair Alicia Metallic
Description
Comparative Canadian Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 2015.
Framing Canada's Aboriginal Peoples: A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous and Mainstream Television News
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brad Clark
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 41-64
Description
Compares coverage of events on Global Television, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and CTV to that of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). Stories covered: shooting of Chelsea Yellowbird, vote buying at Esgenoopetitj First Nation, Air Canada, Winnipeg and First Nation flood evacuees, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Keystone XL pipeline protest.
From the Editor: Gendered and Intergenerational Violence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chadwick Allen
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. vii-viii
Description
Introduction journal featuring articles about specific forms of violence.
Full Circle: The Aboriginal Healing Foundation & the Unfinished Work of Hope, Healing & Reconciliation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Wayne K. Spear
[Full Interview: Anisa White]
Alternate Title
Indigenous Law Videos on Demand Project
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Anisa White
Kamala Todd
Emily Snyder
Renée McBeth
Description
Interview with a Gladue writer and a lawyer who answers the question, what does Indigenous law mean to you?
Duration: 23:23.
Games of Silence: Indian Boarding Schools in Louise Erdrich's Novels
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miriam Schacht
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 62-79
Description
Discusses how Erdrich's approach to boarding schools is one of safe haven not the historical negative effects on Native communities. Suggests instructors supplement teaching so students get a complete picture of boarding school experiences.
Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention
Alternate Title
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
David B. MacDonald
Description
Looks at whether the residential school system was genocidal and suggests ways to move forward with reconciliation if it is recognized as such.
Chapter 14 from Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, Alexander Laban Hinton.
"Go Forward with Courage": K – 7: Entry Point Lesson Plans to Help Teachers Indigenize the Curriculum and Classroom
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Johnson
Stephanie Maki
Heather Myhre
Description
Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.
Grade 8: Investigating Consequences of Residential Schooling in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch
Ministry of Education [Ontario]
Description
Lesson plan to be used with the Ontario education curriculum.
Grade Eight Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Exploring Treaty Impacts and Alternatives" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.