No More “Die Bread”: How Boarding Schools Impacted Native Diet and the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
A personal reflections on the impact of boarding school diets on Indigenous tastes and health.
Off to School: Filmic False Equivalence and Indian Residential School Scholarship
On the Call for a Residential Schools National Monument
On the Side of the Angels: A Memoir by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak: Teaching Guide
Designed for use with students in Grades 7 to 9.
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
Problem Solver or "Evil Genius": Thomas Jesse Jones and The Problem of Indian Administration
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Indian Residential Schools and Youth Protection Services
Reconciliation Pole
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
Reexamines the ideologies of Carlisle Indian Industrial School's first superintendent and his relationships with Indigenous communities.
Records Relating Generally to Residential Schools
“Recruited to Teach the Indians”: An African American Genealogy of Navajo Nation Boarding Schools
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
Red Wolf
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut As Told by Nellie Winters, Transcribed and Edited by Erica Obendorfer: Teaching Guide
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.
Remains of Children of Kamloops Residential School Discovered
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience: A Landmark Exhibit at the Heard Museum
Examines the 2000 exhibit at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Residential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Residential Schools and the Kamloops Tragedy
Reports results of series of questions asked of 1,539 respondents regarding residential schools.
Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation: Selected Resources
Annotated list compiled for use by teachers; current as of 2021.
Revisiting the Hopi Boarding School Experience at Sherman Institute and the Process of Making Research Meaningful to Community
An authors reflection on his research into the Sherman Institute boarding school.
Rights Before We Talk Reconciliation: Reporting on Indigenous Issues in Canada
School Days for Me and the Museum: Commentary on Remembering Our Indian School Days, a Landmark Exhibit at the Heard Museum
A personal reflection by one of the curators in charge of bringing a boarding school exhibit together.
Settler Colonial Power and Indigenous Survival: Hockey Programs at Three Indian Residential Schools in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba, 1929-1969
Shingwauk Narratives: Sharing Residential School History
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation: Teachers' Resource Guide
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Special Edition by Children and Youth: Our Hopes and Dreams for Making Shannen's Dream Come True
Special issue that looks at the poor living conditions at a school on the Attawapiskat First Nation. Includes letters written by Omushkegowuk Cree children.
Standing Strong Task Force Report & Recommendations: Acknowledging the Past, Learning form the Present, Looking to the Future
Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence and Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Teaching Guide
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
A Storytelling Approach to Second-Generations Survivors of Residential School: The Impact and Effects
The Supreme Court's Indian Residential Schools Cases: The Beatings Continue
Trauma, Loss, Resilience, and Resistance in the Beauval Indian Residential School
Unable to Hear: Settler Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Understanding Parenting Styles of Second-Generation Parents of Residential School Survivors within Treaty 8 Reserves
[Unreconciled: Family, Truth, Indigenous Resistance]
Unsettling Settler Shame in Schooling: Re-Imagining Responsible Reconciliation in Canada
Unsettling the Archive: Intervention and Parody in Contemporary Indigenous Photography
Violence, Compensation, and Settler Colonialism: Adjudicating Claims of Indian Residential School Abuse through the Independent Assessment Process
We Are Not Going Anywhere
"We still need the game. As Indigenous people, it's in our blood." A Conversation on Hockey, Residential School, and Decolonization.
We Were Always Here
Where Are the Children Buried?
General overview of historical context along with examples of specific schools for illustrative purposes and 'gap analysis' to recommend areas where further research is required. Second part of report is a more detailed summary of information on each school’s location and construction sequence, duration of operation, and reported cemeteries.
Who Gets to Tell the Stories? Carlisle Indian School: Imagining a Place of Memory Through Descendant Voices
Examines boarding school through the lenses of the student's descendants recollections of their families experiences. Through these means the stories will continued to be told once there are no more living alumni.