Assimilation

Black and White photograph of a room of young Indigenous women in European clothes. Some are seated at sewing machines, and others sit on chairs sewing by hand. Two nuns oversee the activity in the background. Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

Black and white photograph of an Indigenous man in quasi-traditional clothing and three children (two girls, one boy) in full European apparel. The children attend the Qu'Appelle Industrial School. John Milloy identifies the man in this photo as Quewich and his children (A National Crime, page 29). Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

Home Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Arizona, 1984.

Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 1995.

Explores the clash between Christianity and shamanistic religions through an analysis of historical interactions between missionaries and the Chippewa, and the character of Lipsha in Love Medicine.

Explores the Ghost Dance social and religious movement and its prophet Wovoka. The Ghost Dance was created during times of hardships for the American Indigenous people in hopes of a return to happier times.

Resource for teaching the children's book about an Inuit girl and her experiences at a residential school. Book is suitable for Grades 4-7.

Resource for teaching the children's book about an Inuit girl and her experiences at a residential school. Book is suitable for Grades 4-7.

Resource for teaching the children's book about an Inuit girl and her experiences at a residential school. Book is suitable for Grades 4-7.

Historical overview of the running of and changes to American Indigenous boarding schools over a forty year period.

Discusses officials' drive to integrate students into state run institutions in order to accelerate assimilation and civilization.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Indiana University, 1975.

Speaker discusses various methods used in efforts to transform children into "acceptable" citizens. Duration: 1:34:48.

This file contains a promotional brochure titled "Her Future, Our Challenge," produced by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians. It promotes a proposed conference and training centre to be built in Regina. There is a letter inside the pamphlet from Judge Clifford Sifton Davis Q. C. endorsing the project.

Examines the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories by Native American women writer Gertrude Bonnin and considers various strategies of resistance to assimilation.

Comments on the status of aboriginal languages in Canada including some statistics and estimates.

Book review of: A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 by Frederick E. Hoxie.

Survey conducted to measure Canadian's baseline awareness of the residential school system and the long-term, intergenerational consequences for the Aboriginal population.

Conference to establish parameters and framework for research and knowledge mobilization of an Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre, one of five being established by the Canadian Council on Learning. Includes State of Aboriginal Learning: Background Paper for the "National Dialogue on Aboriginal Learning by Marie Battiste (2005).

Book review of: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.

Review conducted to assist in establishing Métis' eligibility for residential school settlements.

An examination on how scholars can find the balance between the positive effects and the loss of culture when addressing the experiences of Indigenous boarding school students.

"Year ending June 30, 1911." Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Graduate Theological Union, 1998.

Information sheet presenting an overview of the structure of First Nations child welfare in 2011.

Explores the following: Historical Context, Policies Directed at Colonization, Colonization in Canada, Impact of Colonization on Identity, Decolonization, Self-Determination, and Concluding remarks.

Highlights promising practices and looks into the two common threads within these practices.

Field test draft.

Discusses the crimes against humanity in Indian residential schools and appropriate measures that could be implemented to address those injustices.

Discusses the ramifications of past American assimilationist policies as manifested in the residential school system. Duration: 1:30:52.

Shares personal stories of the physical, sexual and emotional abuses of residential school experiences. Duration 7:27.

Article focuses on political reforms and the situation of the qullas in Bolivia. To access this article, scroll down to page 28.

Discusses the assimilation policies regarding child removal in the United States and Australia.

Presents personal narratives relating experiences at schools and looks at how structures in the educational system conflict with traditional life.

Introduces the subject of the book. Foreword from Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis. To locate article, scroll to page xi.

Considers access to college in an ecological context that encompasses family, tribes, life on a rural reservation and previous educational experiences.

Examines the specific traits Anglican and Roman Catholic missionaries believed made for an educated and civilized person, why not everyone accepted the views, and why their education approach was not always successful.

Dated version of the history of school reflects attitude of the time.

Arts Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2017.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1990.

Looks at the evolution of the Cherokee legal system, from traditional blood feuds to a traditional tribal court system. However, the signing of the New Echota Treaty in 1835 saw the return to blood feuds within the Cherokee Nation.

Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system.

Discusses the 'outing system' and the goal of removing native children from tribal influences.

Overview of Indigenous ways of knowing, education assimilation policy, first Nations control of education and post-secondary Indigenous Studies programs. Entire issue on one pdf. To read article scroll to p. 11.

Looks at how some students used military drill as a way to survive the abuse faced at school by finding relief in travel opportunities to participate in performances and competitions off of the school grounds.