Assimilation
Think Indigenous [11: Pam Palmater]
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference (TIEC) ; 2015]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Pam Palmater
Description
Speaker discusses the importance of teachers to the process of decolonization.
From: Think Indigenous Education Conference (TIEC) 2015, March 18-20, University of Saskatchewan.
Duration: 42:59.
Thinking in Subversion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Gansworth
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 153-165
Description
Memoir piece in which the author describes the process of learning Tuscarora as a child, relearning it as an adult, and the choices they continue to make around language use and cultural survivance.
The Three R's of Seeking Transitional Justice: Reparation, Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Bonner
Matt James
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 31, 2011, p. Article 3
Description
Discusses the similarities and differences in the three important transitional justice goals: reparation, responsibility and reframing, and concludes that Canada’s injustices have made the barriers to pursuing notions of transitional justice much greater.
Thrity Years Later: The Long-Term Effect of Baording Schools on Alaska Natives and Their Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Diane Hirshberg
Suzanne Sharp
Description
Reports results of interviews conducted with 61 individuals who attended boarding schools or were in the urban boarding home program from the late 1940s through the early 1980s, as well as one individual whose parents were boarding school graduates.
Time-Space Compression in the Novel Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway: A Postmodern Approach
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victor Pereira Da Rosa
Isabel Nena Patim
Description
Discussion centers around the main characters' experiences in a residential school and the impact it had on the development of their identity in relation to Aboriginal culture and community.
To Change the World: The Use of American Indian Education in the Philippines
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Paulet
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 173-202
Description
Looks at how Native American education became a model for the educational system in the Philippines based on the belief that the United States could maintain control by altering lifestyles to more closely resemble that of Americans.
To Guard Against Invading Indians: Struggling for Native Community in the Southeast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zug G. Standing Bear
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 301-320
Description
Examines the Deer Clan and those who were attempting to create a sense of community and identity in southeastern United States.
"To Instruct the Children of Said Indians as to Her Government of Canada May Seem Advisable": The Implementation of Treaty 7 Education Promises from 1877 to 1923
Alternate Title
"They'd Lost Everything and Were Not Qualified": The Legacy of the Unmet Education Promises Made in Treaty 7
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tarisa [Dawn] Little
Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, vol. 3, 2015, pp. [32]-47
Description
Focuses on the creation and management of the schools prior to the merging of industrial and boarding schools to form residential schools.
"To rob the world of a people": Language Removal as an Instance of Colonial Genocide in the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalia Ilyniak
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 9, no. 2, Time, Movement, and Space: Genocide Studies and Indigenous Peoples, October 2015, pp. [76]-97
Description
Examines how the schools practices were designed to disrupt child/community relationship by removing Anishinaabe language.
Transgressing the Boundaries of Indigenous Studies: Traces of 'White Paper' Policy in Academic Patterns of Indigenization
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin FitzMaurice
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 63-76, 187
Description
Discusses the challenges still facing Canadian universities since the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing into academic institutions.
Traversing the Bridges of Our Lives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Norton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 347-358
Description
Outlines the massacre at Natural Bridge in 1852 and the lasting impact to the Hupa people into modern times.
[Truth and Reconciliation]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wilton Little Child
Description
Commissioner from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about the Commission, ramifications of the residential school experience and linkages to current social problems, survivors' stories, and Commission's calls to action.
Duration: 59:29.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Insights into the Goal of Transformative Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karina Czyzewski
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 31, 2011, pp. 1-12
Description
Suggests that educational policy and media initiatives are fundamental to creating awareness, developing public interest and support in the whole process of truth and reconciliation.
Truth and Reconciliation: What Does the Future Hold?
Alternate Title
Big Thinking [Lecture Series]
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wilton Littlechild
Description
Video of speech given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Commissioner from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses the history of residential schools, their impact on Aboriginal society, and the role of the Commission.
Duration: 1:1:56.
Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas G. Andrews
The Western Historical Quarterly , vol. 33, no. 4, Winter, 2002, pp. [407]-430
Description
Argues that because students remained on the reservation, attempts to enforce English instruction, manual training and moral indoctrination had limited success and the tribe was able influence the education of their children.
Two Approaches to Acculturation: Bilingual Education and ESL
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Guillermo Bartelt
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 18, no. 3, May 1979, pp. [15-19]
Description
Compares two educational philosophies, bilingual education and English as a second language, and concludes that bilingual instruction is the best approach when more than one culture is involved.
"The Ultimate Solution": CCF Programs of Assimilation and the Indians and Metis of Northern Saskatchewan
Alternate Title
"The Ultimate Solution": Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programs of Assimilation and the Indians and Metis of Northern Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David M. Quiring
Prairie Forum, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall, 2003, pp. 145-160
Description
Describes the CCF governments' attempt to assimilate the First Nation and Métis populations into mainstream Canadian society.