Assimilation

Author discusses the history, attitudes and ideologies surrounding endangered Native languages.

Contains links to educational modules on six topics: Indigenous worldviews, Indigenous ways of knowing, stereotypes, history of Indigenous education, reconciliation, and treaties. Intended for a post-secondary audience.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook University, 2017.

Uses a review of the film Rabbit Proof Fenceas a starting point for a discussion of the residential school system in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India.

Looks at the responses of the Commonwealth Government to the demands for reparations and recommendations of the National Inquiry.

Mainly photographs.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

Article examines the Indian Residential Schools in the United States during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century; links the conditions in the schools to the failure of American Indian policy in the States.

Looks at the implementation of sport, exercise and recreation as part of an assimilation policy to provide character traits to the students.

Looks at the legacy of colonial education and the roots of some stereotypical assumptions associated with Native Americans. Chapter one of Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education edited by Karen Gayton Swisher and John W. Tippeconnic.

Uses the autobiography of Anthony Apakark Thrasher, a residential school survivor, to illustrate a new approach to survival narratives.

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

Full version (1 hr. 48 min.) of documentary about abuse at residential schools which won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Best Director for an International Documentary at the New York International Film Festival. Based on Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.

Survivors of the Thomas Indian School in New York state and the Mohawk Institute (The Mush Hole) of southern Ontario relate their experiences. Duration: 29:50.

Documentary focuses on the history of the schools, former students' stories, and contemporary issues. Duration: 56:43.

Looks at how literary recontextualizations and renegotiations enable the retelling and reclaiming of Indigenous peoples' histories.

Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.

File contains a negative from a ceremony held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan by the Urban Indian Association to honour graduates on May 2, 1970. Image shows men receiving diplomas on stage.

Explores the long term effect of denying First Nations schools the resources they need.

Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.

Impact on the life of Tecumseh's descendant, Thomas Wildcat Alford of the Shawnee tribe, who was selected by elders to attend a government boarding school in the late 1800's.

Argues that ADR provides the most viable solution to class action suits because its flexibility allows accommodation of the interests of churches, government and victims.

Looks at the complicated relationship between colonial sports and the Navajo.

"Discusses the significance of photographs as a record of American ideas about the education of Native Americans during the last years of the 19th Century." Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

History of the Minnesota school, as well as general discussion of government policies.

Discussion of the play and issues it raises regarding the effects of residential schools.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2002.

Discusses the specific case of Amanda Chingren, who oversaw the "outing" (transition from residential schools or reservations to domestic employment) of Native American girls.

Compares students' experiences in large government-run schools to those in smaller missionary schools.

Fifth Estate documentary about St. Joseph's Mission School in Williams Lake, British Columbia and the residential school system in Canada. Originally aired on Jan. 9, 1991. Duration: 51:50.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2018.

Discusses the development of respectful relationships between the Garden River Anishinaabe and the Anglican Diocese of Algoma from the beginning to the present.

Catalogue to accompany exhibition of the same name held January 30-February 28, 2004 at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Presents some of the author's personal life experiences.

Book review of: Voices From Haskell by Myriam Vučkovic.

Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.

Position paper discusses past treaties and treaty obligations and argues that the Federal government should renegotiate to redress past violations of Aboriginal rights.

Comments on Karl Mennigner and Gregory Boer's reasoning theses to explain the cause for Euro-Canadian problems in reconciling with Indigenous people.

Educational Leadership and Policy Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2012.

Argues that creating space involves more than simply allocating positions and places to those who identify as Indigenous. It also includes recognition of world-views and knowledge bases that are distinctly Indigenous.

Educational documentary which recounts the experiences of three survivors. One attended the Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, another attended the McIntosh Indian Residential School. Duration: 48:45.

Documentary on the role of Native Americans in the military campaigns of World War I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflict. Duration: 56:14.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas, 2012.

Discusses the historical and political challenges for Indigenous religions in the United States. Despite these challenges Indigenous religions have survived and even had a resurgence within Indigenous communities.

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59