Assimilation

Summarizes some of the findings and interim recommendations made by the Commission prior to the publishing of the final report. Article located by scrolling to page 67.

Provides a brief history of Native education and discusses the reasons for a failing system.

Describes the policy of student boarding negotiated between the Dakota peoples and Protestant missionaries in Minnesota.

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the first 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. Duration: 53:59

Film about the Canadian government's residential school system as experienced by two children, their stories and the lasting after-effects. WARNING: Contains disturbing content. Duration: 83:05. Accompanying Facilitators Guide.

To accompany We Were Children, a film about the damage caused by the residential school system in Canada. Designed to support delivery of a four-hour workshop and Power Point presentation.

Argues that emphasis on vocational curriculum not only stemmed from the belief that Native Americans were not fit for higher education, but was also intended to erase tribal identity, history, and communalism, and foster individualism.

Video of excerpts from interviews conducted as part of the exhibition "We Were So Far Away...": The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools. Duration: 26:07.

Website for exhibition includes links to slideshow, timeline, resources, and videos of survivors stories.

Two visual arts activities for ages 12 and up.

Article explores the phenomena of cultural resilience and resistance to assimilation on the Grand Ronde reservation, additionally considers those settler practices that were adopted and the cultural hybridity that came of that space.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2013.

Clark Paul shares his emotional and inspiring story of his experience at residential school. Stephen Augustine provides an overview of residential schools in Canada. Presentations begin at 20:35. Duration: 2:41:51.

Native American survivors of the boarding school system tell their stories. Duration: 1:13:03.

Authors examine the policy frameworks relating to education implemented by provincial and territorial governments in response the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) calls to action; find that Indigenous knowledge systems remain subordinate to Western frameworks which undermines the goals of the process of reconciliation.

Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses its unique mandate, problems with defining and contextualizing reconciliation, how schools affected children, and intergenerational trauma. Duration: 1:03:16.

Looks at how social sciences influenced a more humane approach to assimilation.

Problems children encounter in learning English as a second language in school.

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.

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.

Discusses how the Canadian government inflicted damage on First Nations cultures by the suppression of language and learning, and the enforcement of schooling in "civilized" culture.

Looks at the campaign to assimilate Native Americans in 1889 in order to eliminate the characteristics which set them apart.

Video produced in conjunction with the exhibition. Primarily personal narratives of survivors of the system. Duration: 27:50.

Exhibit includes links to HTML tour, 3D tour, leaving home, remembering the children who never returned, shared stories, resources and classroom.

Activities to accompany play about residential schools which won the Governor General's Award for English Drama. Due to content, play recommended for Grade 12 audience.

Movie about a young girl and her brother who are forced to attend residential school. Duration: 1:37:23.

Includes film review, suggestions for appropriate courses, discussion of pedagogical usefulness, and study questions.

Discussion of the validity and accuracy of a 1989 film written by a non-Aboriginal person about experiences of Indigenous peoples.

Overview of three eras in post-secondary education: colonial, federal and self-determination.

Book review of: White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation by Jacqueline Fear-Segal.

Book review of: White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation by Jacqueline Fear-Segal.

Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret Jacobs.

Book review of: White Mother to a Dark Race by Margaret D. Jacobs.

Author explores the concept of self-identity by looking at his own family background.

Virtual exhibition deals with contemporary artists' response to past colonization. Contains links to: Tolerating Tourists, Changing Reservation Realities, School Bells and Haircuts, and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors.

Features stories of people participating in the sharing circle held at the Winnipeg event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Duration: 27:30.

Lesson plan for grades 5 to 12 (six 60 min. class periods) includes interview, biography, activities, and additional resources.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2017.

Curatorial catalogue of works and artist biographies from an exhibition, mounted September 6-December 1, 2013, centring on residential schools.

Using ten YouTube testimonials to look at the rippling effects that residential schools had on Indigenous people and culture.

Looks at the development of the Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy Education program and follow-up workshops for creating children's books in-order to preserve the Mi'kmaq language in the community of Wagmatcook, Cape Breton.

Project began during conferences held at site of the Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, Sioux Lookout, Ontario. On page 2: "Exercises for building children, families and communities" .

[English?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2011. Discusses the writings of Zitkala-Ša and Charles Eastman.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2010.

Relates personal experience of removal from family, culture and identity.

Book review of: Yijarni by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins.

Black and white photograph of a young blood farmer driving a car. There are several faces looking out of the back window. All wear western style clothes.