Argues that Canada's lack of support regarding First Nations issues, due to residential schools trauma, is simply a continuation of human rights violations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, Special Issue on New Directions in American Indian Autobiography, 2006, pp. 33-52
Description
Author questions whether those with positive residential school experiences should participate in the overall debate and struggle for healing, justice, and political and monetary redress for individuals and communities.
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Statistics for Independent Assessment Process for abuse claims by former residential school students. Lists claims received, resolved and in progress by province and territory, stage of progress, and total compensation paid. Includes links to historical data and charts.
Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
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Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Description
Compares the forced removal of American Indian and Aboriginal children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that governments intentionally removed indigenous children to institutions as acts of colonial control, not assimilation.
Chapter from Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc.
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.
American Educational History Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2006, pp. 97-105
Description
Discusses the use of print media to promote educational reforms, substitution of community day schools for boarding schools, replacement of curriculum to promote Aboriginal culture, and the use of vocational programs to benefit Aboriginal communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 138-152
Description
Using his own studies and struggle to learn the Dakota language as jumping-off point, the author wrestles with the role that historic educational institutions had in removing Indigenous languages and to what extent their contemporary counterparts owe apology and reparation.
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.
Film interview with Brenda MacDougall discussing her research on the history of family names, the church and residential schools in Ile a la Crosse. 7 minutes.
Discusses the Indian Helper, a newspaper published at the school, and the information it conveys in terms of the "civilizing campaign" and the children's responses.
Excerpt from: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Education Experiences edited by Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.
Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945
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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.
Anglican Journal, vol. 132, no. 7, September 2006, p. 14
Description
Central inventory of school records to be compiled in order to make copies available to Truth and Reconciliation Commission as per Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
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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.