Assimilation

Book review of: Stolen From Our Embrace by Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey. To access this review, scroll to page 115.

Looks at the child removal policy of the Australian government and the consequences at the time and for future generations. Bachelor's diploma towards (B.A.)--Masaryk University, 2008.

A collection of materials on the attitudes and practices associated with the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes. Includes representative testimonies from those who were separated from their families and communities.

Compares the assimilation policies regarding child removal in the United States and Australia and looks at the effects it had on the children and their families. Chapter seventeen in Children and War: A Historical Anthology edited by James Marten, foreword by Robert Coles.

Looks at various issues pertaining to assimilation in Canada and Australia, and discusses how Canadian aboriginal claimants, unlike those in Australia, have successfully brought actions for compensation against the federal government.

Originally published 1981.

Society, Culture, and Politics in Education Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2007.

Book review of: Strange Visitors edited by Keith D. Smith. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 118.

Discusses how government boarding schools focused on vocational rather than academic curriculum.

Responses of participants who had attended institutions between 1921 and 1986 are divided into five themes: loss of identity, loss of self-esteem, loneliness, abandonment, and feelings of discomfort when they returned to their communities.

Study based on interviews with 25 individuals from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Canada and 20 individuals from the Inari municipality in Finland.

Authors discuss their strategies for helping individuals who are preparing to speak publically about their experiences in the schools.

[History] Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University, 2013.

Students from the Little Pine Indian School visiting Fort Battleford Historic Park.

Book review of: The Students of Sherman Indian School by Diana Meyers Bahr.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1996.

Discusses consequences of loss of culture through eradication of language, destruction of family unit, forced Christianization, and abuse. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Paper reviews the history of multiculturalism in Canada relating to Indigenous families.

Looks at culturally relevant teaching, in an alternative school, that addresses the needs of a changing society.

Looks at churches' involvement in a system which was characterized by neglect and abuse.

Description of the various avenues pursued by government in an attempt to assimilate Aboriginal peoples.

Provides statistics on number of children in care, and child abuse and neglect; discusses factors contributing to removal and highlights successful programs.

Discusses the crisis facing Aboriginal parents in Canada and the need to create more culturally appropriate and relevant programs, resources and services.

Asserts that colonial education has produced similar results in different parts of the world; includes history of establishing the residential schools in British Columbia.

Argues that neither actor completely controlled the relationship. Schools depended on student attendance, manual labour and acceptance of white culture to sustain themselves, while Native Americans eventually recognized that education could be used to their advantage.

A photograph of T. H. J. Charmbury and two Aboriginal men (probably Wahpeton Dakota) posing in front of a teepee in the Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. Charmbury holds his camera, while the two [Dakota] men are holding on to bicycles that belong to Charmbury and his wife who took this photograph.

Historical note:

Comments on the role six female teachers played in the resistance of colonialism.

Describes the history of United States Native American education policies, calling them "cultural genocide", and the abandonment of the policies in the 1930s. The article also explains the continuing economic exploitation of Native American resources in the 21st century.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2003

Delves into the failures of John Collier's Indian-centered reform program which was guided by principles of progressive education.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2012.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia.

For use as part of the Grade Ten Social Studies curriculum. Divided into four chapters: Politics of War, School Life, Tuberculosis, Impact, Consequences & Legacy, as well as preview and post view lessons.

Looks the history of education in the communities of Sheshatshiu and Utshimassits (Davis Inlet).

Author discusses how narratives composed in different knowledges and cultures interact, adapt, and use each other.

Anthropology Dissertation (Ph.D) --Stanford University, 1998.

Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Poetry.

Argues that meaningful reconciliation must take into account the need for social changes based on relationship building between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal groups.

Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2017.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1998.

Discusses the three methods used by Armstrong to secure funding from the government and philanthropists: celebrity endorsements, fund raising tours, and student correspondence.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2013.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1987.