Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean A. Keller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 97-117
Description
Investigates illnesses at Sherman Institute, a Native American nonreservation boarding school, in October and November of 1904.
The Indian Boarding School Era and Its Continuing Impact on Tribal Families and the Provision of Government Services
Alternate Title
Indian Tribes and Statehood: A Symposium in Recognition of Oklahoma's Centennial
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ann Murray Haag
Tulsa Law Review, vol. 43, no. 1, Fall, 2007, pp. 149-168
Description
Discusses: history of the schools, consequences of removal for individuals and their families, impact of child placement services and welfare programs, and potential remedies.
Indian Horse Study Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Indian Horse Productions?]
Description
To accompany film based on the book of the same name by Richard Wagamese.
Indian Residential School Survivors and State-Designed ADR: A Strategy for Co-Optation?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neil Funk-Unrau
Anna Snyder
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3, Spring, 2007, pp. 285-304
Description
Argues that the state-sponsored alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process reflects a misuse of ADR because it represents the government’s attempt to pacify
residential school survivors through social control.
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Website for organization responsible for out-of-court alternative dispute resolution process for claims of abuse suffered at residential schools.
Contains links to material for legal counsel and former students, statistics, publication, fact sheets, etc.
Indian Residential Schools, Settler Colonialism and Their Narratives in Canadian History
Theses
Author/Creator
Tricia Logan
Description
[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Royal Holloway, University of London, [2017]
Indian Residential Schools Were a Crime and Canada's Criminal Justice System Could Not Have Cared Less: The IRS Criminal Court Cases
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thomas L. McMahon
Description
"This paper presents a chronological history of the criminal law convictions relating to Canada's Indian residential schools."
Indian School, Company Town: Outing Students from Sherman Institute at Fontana Farms Company, 1907-1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Whalen
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Indiana School Days: Native American Education at St. Joseph's Indian Normal School and White's Manual Labor Institute
Theses
Author/Creator
Alysha Danielle Zemanek
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2017.
Indigenous Peoples of Manitoba: A Guide for Newcomers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anika Reynar
Zoe Matties
Description
Introduction to different cultural groups, their history, relationship with the Federal government and current situations.
Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Civil Cases
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Goldie M. Shea
Description
Includes reported cases, unresolved cases, Residential School statistics and list of schools in litigation arranged by province.
Institutional Child Abuse in Canada: Criminal Cases
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Goldie M. Shea
Description
List of cases organized alphabetically by province.
Intimate Colonialisms: The Material and Experienced Places of British Columbia's Residential School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah de Leeuw
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 339-359
Description
Looks at residential schools and the people involved, as part of the policies of assimilation, enculturation or annihilation of Aboriginals. The author categorizes schools as 'intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas'.
Inuit Perceptions of Learning and Formal Education in the Canadian Arctic
Theses
Author/Creator
Geneviève L. Lalonde
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2017.
Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System
Theses
Author/Creator
Bryanne Huston Young
Description
Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.
Lawyers Scramble for Native Clients
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kathy Blair
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 1, January 1999, p. [?]
Description
Letter from law firm suggests that by signing with them former residential school student could receive lucrative settlement; such action is considered improper solicitation.
Learning to Read and Write Opens Up the World
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela Sexsmith Green
Windspeaker, vol. 16, no. 12, 04 1999, p. 32
Description
Depicts Elder Yvonne Carter's experiences with literacy from her earlier days at the residential school through to an Adult Basic Education program.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.52.
The Legacy and Future of the Buffalo People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Buffalo Star Woman (Sandra Delorme)
BC Studies, no. 193, Spring, 2017, pp. 8-11
Description
Author reflects on how residential schools have impacted herself and her loved ones, and describes how she has freed herself from that inheritance.
[Legal documents relating to abuse of students at St. Anne's Indian Residential School]
Alternate Title
R. v Anna Wesley
Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Government of Canada]
Description
Court transcripts of Ann Wesley case, in which former nun was charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance and couirt documents which reference the use of the electric chair on students.
Lesson 9: Residential Schools
Alternate Title
Building Inclusion by Combating Racism: [Education Resources Grades 9-12]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Julie Gayoski-Luke
Gayle Tuominen
Meghan MacDonald
Joanne Kovanchuk
Kathleen Shaw
Mark Nowak
Shannon McQuilter-Viau
Description
Educational resource for high school Canadian Studies classes.
Lessons Learned Study of the Common Experience Payment Process: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Evaluation
Performance Measurement
and Review Branch
Audit and Evaluation Sector
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Study determined the successes or failures of the design and implementation of the response to the Settlement Agreement.
Liberal MP Calls on Federal Government to Apologize to Aboriginal Canadians
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2007, p. 8
Description
Discusses the necessity of an apology, by the government, for the trauma and abuse suffered by Aboriginal Canadians.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.
A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Q. Dudley
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-30
Description
Analyzes books in OCLC Worldcat with Library of Congress subject heading "Indians of North America", with keywords genocide, holocaust or extermination.
Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jesse Devost
Northern Review, no. 45, Innovation in the Circumpolar North, June 2017, pp. 161-163
Description
Book review of: Lines in the Ice by Phillip J. Hatfield.
Literacy Practices at the Genoa Industrial Indian School
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy M. Goodburn
Description
Focuses on literacy texts and students' writing within and outside the curriculum to determine how students were assimilated.
Litigation Seen as Result of Loss of Old Native Ways
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kathy Blair
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 10, December 1999, p. 2
Description
Meeting told that residential schools stripped language, culture as well traditional methods of dispute resolution, so the alternative has become litigation.
Lost Generations
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Carpenter
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 2, April/May 2017, pp. 38-43
Description
A female Inuit survivor of the Canadian residential school systems recalls her experiences of the 1940s and 1950s.
Louise Bernice Halfe
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Louise Bernice Halfe
Ian Ferrier
Description
Interview with an author at the Words Aloud 4 Spoken Word Festival in Durham, Ontario, November 2007.
Duration: 9:37.
Lump Sum Compensation Payments Research Project: The Circle Rechecks Itself
Alternate Title
Lump Sum Compensation Payments Study
E-Books
Author/Creator
Madeleine Dion Stout
Rick Harp
Description
Discusses the differences between four lump sum payment (LSP) options offered to survivors of residential schools in Canada.
Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sam McKegney
Mashantucket Pequet Museum and Research Center, Archives and Special Collections: Bibliography of Native Americans and Education
Documents & Presentations
Description
Lists historical American materials held at the library.
Mashantucket Pequot Research Library: Indian Residential Schools Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Description
Brief list of items held by the library.
Minister's Reference on Institutional Child Abuse: Discussion Paper
Web Sites » Governmental
Description
Includes background information, needs of survivors and suggested approaches to redress.
Misconceptions of Canada's Indian Residential School System
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Description
Brief document examining common inaccurate beliefs.
Missiological Implications for Taylor Seminary Arising From Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Recommendations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allan Effa
Missiology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2017, pp. 407-413
Description
Case study of a seminary in Edmonton, Alberta which is exploring changes to the curriculum as a response to the Commission's call to action.
Mixed Blessing to Money
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, December 3, 2007, p. A3
Description
Presents some historical background and a look at forthcoming residential school settlement payments to former students.
Mowatt v. Clarke
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
British Columbia Courts
Description
1999 BCSC [British Columbia Supreme Court] 1341Docket 7838. Judgement regarding St. George's Indian Residential School (Anglican Church of Canada) and the sexual abuse of children. Findings of liability made in relation to federal Crown and Anglican Church for actions of dorm supervisor Derek Clarke.
Narrative Robustness, Post-Apology Conduct, and Canada's 1998 and 2008 Residential Schools Apologies
Alternate Title
Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Matt James
Description
Looks at why the more extensive apology was not followed by actions that would indicate substantive engagement with Aboriginal issues.
Chapter 45 from The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945 edited by Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters.
"A National Crime": The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
Alternate Title
Manitoba Studies in Native History ; 11
E-Books
Author/Creator
John S. Milloy
Manitoba Studies in Native History
[A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System - 1879 to 1986]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael Angel
Manitoba History, vol. 38, Autumn / Winter, 1999-2000
Description
Book review of: A National Crime by John Milloy.
"National Memory" and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling
Alternate Title
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Arie Molema
Description
Draws on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation at Truth and Reconciliation Commission national events and 50 interviews with former students who have been denied recognition and compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Chapter from Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne.
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
TeachRock
Description
Lesson uses interviews with Pat Vegas and Redbone from the documentary Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World as a jumping-off point to examine the U.S. government's efforts to control Native American culture by way of music.
Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Description
Organization aims to assist in the holistic development and wellness of Aboriginal individuals, families and communities.
Native Deacon, Husband Off to Lytton
Articles » General
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 10, December 1999, p. 3
Description
Catherine Morrison, the youngest ordained Aboriginal woman in North America, to be sent to British Columbia diocese, which was the site of residential school named in lawsuit.
Navigating Structural Violence With Indigenous Families: The Contested Terrain of Early Childhood Intervention and the Child Welfare System in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison J. Gerlach
Annette J. Browne
Vandna Sinha
Diana Elliott
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, July 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Reports findings from inquiry into Aboriginal Infant Development Program (AIDPs) in British Columbia.
Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lori Lewis
Laura Robinson
Description
Presents play FrontRunners by Laura Robinson about segregation and abuse in residential school, the Aboriginal teenage boys selected to run 800 kilometers carrying the torch for the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967, and the apology by the province thirty-two years later.
Duration: 47:27
Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunner Study Guide.
Lesson Plan.
"No Place to Go": The Thomas Indian School and the "Forgotten" Indian Children of New York
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keith R. Burich
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 93-110
Description
Article discusses the devastating life effects and the minimal educational benefits children received by attending boarding schools.
Of Linguicide and Resistance: Children and English Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Indian Boarding Schools in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Griffin
Paedagogica Historica, vol. 53, no. 6, 2017, pp. 763-782
Description
Examines government documents and school newspapers to explore sanctions against the use of their Indigenous languages by residential school students.
Off-Reservation Boarding High School Teachers: How Are They Perceived by Former American Indian Students
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ben Chavis
The Social Science Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, January 1999, p. 33
Description
Discusses various recollections of the teacher-student relationships Native American's had with their former teachers in boarding school settings, and looks at the process of assimilation fostered within the context of an all-Indian boarding school.
Oh, Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mark Cherrington
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007, p. [?]
Description
Describes abuses suffered by children in residential schools, the settlement process and the system for "grading" abuses in determining reparations.