History

What's Happening in the ISR?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Contaminants & Remediation Directorate
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Updates on management of contaminants at five sites in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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What’s the Score?: American Indians in Sports

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Description
Presents a look at Native American sports through the years, including traditional, boarding school, reservation, and professional sports.
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What Truth? What Reconciliation?: Understanding the Work of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Alternate Title
[Schulich Law School] Mini Law School ; 4
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mike DeGagné
Jennifer Llewellyn
Description
Executive Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation outlines historical background to the formation of the Commission; professor of law explains various aspects of the Settlement Agreement, the meaning of restorative justice and the need for establishing and maintaining a new relationship between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals. Duration: 55:52.
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What Will Become of the Indians?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
[Edward Jacker]
American Catholic Quarterly Review, vol. 2, 1886, pp. 702-729
Description
Author urges expansion of missionary activities, including schools, in the interest of "civilizing" and assimilating the "inferior race". Reflects the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Whatever Happened to the Kanakas?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Barman
The Beaver, vol. 77, no. 6, December/January 1997, pp. 12-?
Description
Describes the settlement history of Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest.
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When History Is Myth: Genocide and the Transmogrification of American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies, 2005, pp. 113-118
Description
Looks at myth-based "history" associated with genocide, and the response of Native Americans to the violence and brutality perpetuated by such history.
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Whenever the Indians of the Reserve Should Desire It: An Analysis of the First Nation Treaty Right to Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vic Savino
Erica Schumacher
Manitoba Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1991-1992, pp. [476]-497
Description
Argues that the Federal government failed to live up to its obligations and used a narrow interpretation, which worked to its advantage, based on the written document, as opposed to the actual intent of those who signed the treaties but could not read them to ensure their best interests were being served.
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Where Are the Children Buried?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Scott Hamilton
Description

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.

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Where the Digital Rubber Hits the Information Highway: Putting Canadian History on CD-ROM

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 80, no. 3, 1999, pp. 479-486
Description
Reviews of seven CDs: Great Canadian Adventure: Portrait of a Nation. Canadian Treasures: An Interactive Journey through Canada's Heritage Klondike Gold Rush Settler's of Upper Canada: A Time of Change and Progress Totem Poles: Myth, Magic and Monumental Art on the Pacific Northwest Coast by the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Emily Carr at Home and at work Making History: Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion of 1885
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Where the Spirit Lives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rina Gangemi Spano
Teaching Sociology, vol. 20, no. 2, April 1992, pp. 179-181
Description
Includes film review, suggestions for appropriate courses, discussion of pedagogical usefulness, and study questions.
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Where the Spirit Lives

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Keith Ross Leckie
Paul Stephens
Bruce Pittman
Michael Todd
Description
Movie about a young girl and her brother who are forced to attend residential school. Duration: 1:37:23.
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Whispers of This Wik Woman

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Noel Loos
Aboriginal History, vol. 28, 2005, pp. 176-178
Description
Book review of: Whispers of This Wik Woman by Fiona Doyle. Review located by scrolling to page 176.
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White Girl 'Gone Off With the Blacks'

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Liz Reed
Hecate, vol. 28, no. 1, 2002, pp. 9-22
Description
Looks at an incident that took place in Victoria, Australia in 1891 between a white girl and an Aboriginal boy.
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