Assimilation

Explains how two groups of girls, one made up of First Nations and the other made up of white, could share the same boarding school for years and not talk to one another.

Discusses gender discourse and territorial expansion policies in Louisa May Alcott’s novels and its negative effect on many Native American people.

Excerpt from Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear. Published by University of Nebraska Press. Author discusses his time at Carlilse Indian Industrial School.

Book review of: Magic Weapons by Sam McKegney; foreword by Basil H. Johnston. Scroll to page 212 to read review.

Looks at the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons minutes and proceedings from 1949 which recommended a move away from segregated to integrated schools for Aboriginal children.

Examines of the educational aims, practices, successes and failures of the institution which sought to assimilate Native American students.

Looks into the longest standing and most prestigious award for First Nation athletes in Canada.

Looks at the governments attempt to create a one-size-fits-all category of societal Canadian citizenship, and reveals the extent to which First Nations peoples and immigrants were expected to conform to Canadian values and standards.

Discusses how the pageant, which traced the history of the U.S. and was enacted during the annual "Indian Day" at the school, was used to teach children that only the white, Christian lifestyle was correct.

Looks at limited access to incriminating archival documents about genocidal tactics used against Aboriginal people and promotes importance of archival preservation of all materials retrieved through IAP (Independent Assessment Process) proceedings.

Explores concepts and possibilities for ethical intervention to state interpellation, nationalist ideologies and post-colonial instruction.

Discusses the Indian Helper, a newspaper published at the school, and the information it conveys in terms of the "civilizing campaign" and the children's responses. Excerpt from: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Education Experiences edited by Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.

Examines the inaccurate and stereotypical images at Indian Schools aimed at manufacturing images of acculturation and assimilation.

Discusses the various models for providing child welfare services.

Consists of an interview with Margaret Siwallace where she mentions a flood legend of her people. She briefly describes the initital encounter of her people with Alexander MacKenzie.

Mark Wolfleg talks about the Blackfoot interpretation of the terms of Treaty #7; also the roles of the Crowfoot and a group of Metis in taking Treaty #7. He also talks about his overseas experiences during World War II.

Discussion on problems of the younger generation, including alcoholism. Also discussed ways in which parents and elders can help by instructing children and young people and by maintaining the Indian religion.

Lists historical American materials held at the library.

Brief list of items held by the library.

Book review of: Matrons and Maids by Victoria K. Haskins.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2003.

Book review of: Medicine River by Thomas King.

Argues that while the role of official apologies is controversial, it nevertheless plays a part in the broader reconciliation process. Uses Canadian and the Australian experience as case studies.

Argues the process should be an opportunity to change the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, but this change hinges on the general public's acceptance of the need to redefine history and national identity.

Study of four schools and their role in cultural assimilation.

Speech marking the one-year anniversary of Canada’s apology to the survivors of the Indian Residential Schools System comments on lack of progress in Federal government funding for Métis programs. Scroll down to see speech.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

Discusses how the value of literacy has been recognized by the Micmac Tribe for over 300 years and illustrates how varieties of scripts imposed by outside cultures has impeded production of bi-cultural educational materials.

Includes background information, needs of survivors and suggested approaches to redress.

Delves into the creation of the White Earth Reservation, the allotment periods, and tribal bingo as a source of income, education, and the evolution of their religion for the Chippewa Nation.

Brief document examining common inaccurate beliefs.

Overview of debates and research, with focus on major themes found in scholarly literature.

Comments on how missionaries transmitted and instilled Western notions of race, class, and gender to Indigenous people.

This article describes the author's experiences as an Anglican missionary in Ontario in the mid-1950s. Aspects of Aboriginal life covered include marriage, kinship, education, value system and religion.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2009.

Teacher resource for children's book about the last summer a boy spent with his family before being sent to residential school.

Black and white photograph of a group of Peigan men in Fort Macleod Jubilee Parade.

Black and white photograph of a group of Peigan men from Montana on horseback in traditional clothing (many wear head-dresses) bearing two American flags at the MacLeod Jubilee Parade.

Black and white photograph of two Wood Cree men present at Frog Lake on the day of the massacre. Moostoos on left, Neeoaquatatoue on right. Both wear western style clothes.

Using historical comparisons, examines present concepts and Indian residential school policy as part of a larger government plan to assimilate Indigenous people.

Examines ways that federal assimilation policies were actualized in the cultivation and consumption of food at the boarding school and the how the newsletter helped the students keep their identities.

First hand accounts of abusive experiences in residential schools.

Describes Motherwell’s work as a teacher in various locations in what is now Saskatchewan: Orkney, Katepwa, Balcarres, the Crowstand Mission School and the Mistawasis Mision of the Presbyterian Church, and later she was appointed Principal of File Hills Indian Residential School. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 25.

Consists of an interview where she discusses arranged marriages in her youth and the artistic tradition in her family.

Consists of an interview where she tells of an encounter between James Douglas and the Indians. She also discusses various early missionaries who came to her people.