Assimilation

Argues that education has been used as a tool for assimilation and that reflection on its power and control is necessary in resisting cultural homogenization.

Basically tries to justify the Office's approach to education and discuss how successful it has been.

Brief discussion of traditional practices, era of government-imposed assimilation through residential schools, and current situation with respect to tribal control of education.

Book review of: Education and the American Indian, The Road to Self Determination Since 1928 by Margaret Connell Szasz.

Introduces special issue highlighting Aboriginal educational development and the need for cultural in education.

Contends that education can create a path towards reconciling past historical trauma.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2006.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2003.

Connects the decline in ali'i births to the residential Hawaiian missionary run Chiefs' Children's School where colonial Puritan policies eventually put an end to future generations of Hawaiian rulers.

Collection of sayings and "teachings".

Looks at the nuns' additive and combinative approach to trying to "Frenchify" Indigenous girls, and how it fell out of favour when the government decided that Indigenous people would have to be completely assimilated.

Article suggests that the goals of the Ursuline nuns in Québéc—conversion and assimilation of Indigenous girls in New France—is complicated by various factors including correspondence from the French crown, the convent’s relationship with Jesuit orders, and Indigenous resistance to assimilation.

Brief reports on Methodist Society's "civilizing" activities among the Mississauga people.

Discusses the relationship between the Mayan concept of Jun Winaq, Indigenous education, and citizenship discourse in the Guatemalan context.

Discusses improvements made in the field of Indigenous education over the last 30 years, two alternative Indigenous education programs, and challenges still ahead.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.

Brief article from 1881 describes the establishment of Carlisle Indian School and the introduction of American Indian students to the Hampton Institute. Both were initiatives of Richard Henry Pratt. Entire issue on one pdf., to access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Comments on the struggle for equal and special rights for the Sami people in the Norwegian education system. Chapter from Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education edited by H. Niedrig and C. Ydesen.

Excerpt from an article of the same name published in Winter 2000 issue of Native Americas Journal argues that the healing process cannot begin until residential school survivors have won compensation in Canadian courts .

Sociology Theses (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Dakota, 2008.

Analysis of the Cheyenne Transporter's (1880-86) content reveals belief that discipline and certain subjects civilize, Americanize, and bring people into the mainstream. Appreciation of, or consideration for, the culture of Cheyenne and Arapaho is absent.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Montana State University, 2011.

Discusses goals, issues and various options available when educating Native American children.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1999.

Educational Administration and Leadership Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of British Columbia, 1990.

Urban Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1993.

Briefly discusses how the influential educator contributed to the concept of the school system.

Book review of: Elder Brother and the Law of the People by Robert Alexander Innes.

File containing correspondence relating to a statement made by a liberal senator to abolish reserves, an article on the same from the Globe and Mail. From the Kingston Whig-Standard, an article stating that assimilation of indigenous persons will be unsuccessful, and a list of the number of indigenous persons on the Voters List in the 1962 General Election and the number who voted.

Topics included: American Indian Culture in Transition, Sources of Mental Stress in Indian Acculturation, Avoidance of Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health of Indian Boarding School Children, Psychological Conflicts of Adolescents, Helping the Adolescent in School, etc.

Contends that all Canadians should be interested in the Final Report, the Executive Summary and the Calls to Action produced by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author discusses the Navajo ways of blending traditional practices, identities, and ways of being with contemporary mainstream social structures and lifestyles.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2005.

Webinar discusses culture, community, and place-based education. Duration: 1:08:34.

Focuses on situation on Belcher Island, Northwest territories and in particular on Inuit concerns that current educational program is not fulfilling the goal of reducing dependency on the Canadian government.

Critiques federal government's programs for the provision of housing, which authors argue failed to take into account Inuit culture, designed and built houses suited to needs in the South rather than the North, and set up housing authorities and community councils that were, in effect, run by Whites rather than by Inuit members.

Discusses a curriculum module which looks at assimilation practices and the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families to residential schools.

Explores the effects of colonization on ethnic groups and presents a case against combining Ethnic Studies and Native Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Education and Human Development Thesis (M.Sc.)--New York College at Brockport, 2014.

An overview of the traditional forms and philosophies of education in Native communities in Nova Scotia, and the changes that have occurred since pre-contact and colonization to the present. Chapter Four of Kekina’muek: Learning about the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia

Counseling, Educational and School Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--Wichita State University, 2009.

Looks at the interaction between the United States government and aboriginals during the assimilation period, and the ways in which their employment was an important but short-lived component of United States Indian policy.

Personal recollections from 1963 about "the first generation of Inuit to be systematically inserted into the Qallunaat [non-Inuit] line of formal education."

Teacher's resource for the documentary The Experimental Eskimos directed by Barry Greenwald. Tells the stories of Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak, and Eric Tagoona, three Inuit men who were sent to Ottawa as 12-year-olds for a "white" education. The men eventually became leaders in the Inuit community and helped to advance the interests of their people.

Discusses reconciliation from the point of view and experiences of an Indigenous social worker, a mother and a daughter and the living legacy of residential school.