Assimilation

Examines two educational experiments carried out by the University of Chicago at the Sac and Fox Indian settlement in Tama County, Iowa.

Looks at effects of the Indian Act and the damage done to First Nations children in residential schools and child welfare services.

Website includes photographs of students, staff, and buildings, and histories of United Church-run schools.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Truman State University, 2003.

[History] Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 1992.

[Anthropology] Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.

Christine Adam, one of the first residents of Uranium City, reflects on life in the old days. Page one: portrait of Christine Adam. Page Two: portrait of Christine with her mother and friend Adele Whitedeer.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1955.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Utah State University, 2008.

Book review of: Geniesh : an Indian Girlhood by Jane Willis. "The harsh life of the old-time mission school and its attempt to "de-Indianize" the Indian."

Overview of a creative discussion guide, prepared by writers from Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches, that can be used to explore the issue of forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.

Book review of: The Circle Game by Roland Christjohn and Sherri Young.

Book review of: The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada by Roland Chrisjohn, Sherri Young, Michael Maraun. Book review found by scrolling to page 226.

Brief overview of government policies aimed at eradicating Native Americans, discussion of how schools fit into achieving these goals, and possibilities for achieving redress through litigation.

Contends that those who worked within the Residential School System believed they were working on saving the souls of the children in their care.

Overview of the Canadian Indian policy from 1896-1905, when Clifford Sifton and the Laurier government attempted to overhaul the Indian administration, and assimilate the Aboriginal peoples.

This file contains a newspaper clipping about the life of Lucy M. Baker, praising her work with the Indians who "worshipped" her for the work she did for the Makoce Waste Sioux after the 1885 rebellion. Also scanned is a mission report of the two reserves she worked at, Mistawasis (Cree) and Makoce Waste (Sioux).

Curriculum has flexibility to be adapted for use with grades 4-12. Novel is about the Navajo Marines of World War II.

Explores the interconnections between theater and history and the black and Native americanization program at Hampton Institute.

A black and white picture of a large group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, all dressed in formal attire, in front of two large buildings that make up Le College Emmanuel.

Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood, with Gillian Thomas.

Looks at the inner psychic conflicts of American Indian boarding school students in Indian boarding school environments, the interactions between aspects of the school environment, and the cultural and political beliefs complex process of assimilation that occurs in Indian boarding school residential settings.

Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens. Scroll down to read paper. Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt. Scroll down to read paper.

Discusses how past colonial laws have harmed Aboriginal peoples and offers alternative forms of justice to redress the effects of those policies and practices. .

Representative from the Indian Residential School Survivor's Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools. Duration: 20:51. Part 2. Part 3.

Shows how textbooks were used as tools to manipulate and justify colonization in the educational context.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2008.

Discusses how the Canadian Cree have been forced into spatial and ideological exile, and how oral traditions can renew collective memory. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

An investigation into the successful implementation of a Cherokee Female Seminary, modeled after seminaries in Massachusetts. The Cherokee Nation embracing a non-Indigenous education with fewer tribal traditions to adhere to leading to less feelings of alienation for the students.

Brief interview with well-known writer discusses the residential boarding school program in the United States, in particular the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Discusses the need to develop strategies for assisting communities move forward by understanding both the traditional and contemporary family dynamic.

Focuses on residential schools and assimilationist policies.

Details the various tactics used by Indian Agent R.S. Mackenzie: coerced baptisms, arrests, police manhunts, and withholding rations.

Psychology Thesis (M.Phil.)--Massey University, 2009.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2015.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Diego, 1998.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2009.

American Indian Studies (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1999.

Analyzes the attempt by Momaday to combine traditional Native American personal narratives with contemporary versions from their white education.

Session One from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Includes prayer and opening remarks and discussion on settlement negotiations. Duration: 1:54:14.

Suggests that the competitive classroom is not culturally suited to Aboriginal students.

Education Foundations Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Using official records from the first and largest off-reservation Indian boarding school in his case study, the author challenges the objectivity of morality rates. Factors such as definition of a student or alumni and including ill students that were discharged before their deaths can change the numbers drastically.