Assimilation

Discusses the government policy-making decisions of integrating Aboriginal children into the public school system.

Discusses the significance of cultural heritage and the support of Aboriginal peoples towards the institution of postcolonial law and literature.

Examines the history, structure, and practice of the missionary schools (and the later public schools) and their role in providing colonial education to Métis and settler students with the intent to civilized them, and by extension their families. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 22.

Discusses the wartime contributions of American Indians, including the shift from being scouts to part of the regular army.

Book review of: From the Centre to the City by Kevin Keeffe. Review located by scrolling to page 154.

Book review of: From Treaties to Reserves by D. J. Hall.

Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.

Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Portland State University, 2004.

Book reviews of 2 books: Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.

Discusses the life of Washington's prominent teacher and artist, including her time at Tulalip Indian School.

Discusses how Erdrich's approach to boarding schools is one of safe haven not the historical negative effects on Native communities. Suggests instructors supplement teaching so students get a complete picture of boarding school experiences.

Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2012.

Focusing on Fort Alexander Indian Residential school examines how space applies to physical, biological, and cultural elimination of a group.

To access material, use the password "showarchive' & enter. You may need to scroll down to find particular materials. Suggests that the genocide of Aboriginals in Canada has never stopped, but continues to exist in altered form. Excerpt from Canada and International Humanitarian Law: Peacekeeping and War Crimes in the Modern Era edited by Richard D. Wiggers and Ann L. Griffiths.

Keynote address by associate professor of Native Studies at York University. Duration: 1:05:11.

Looks at the international definition of genocide, physical and social decimation, disease as genocide and more.

Looks at whether the residential school system was genocidal and suggests ways to move forward with reconciliation if it is recognized as such. Chapter 14 from Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, Alexander Laban Hinton.

To access material, use the password "showarchive' & enter. You may need to scroll down to find particular materials. Talk given at Presence of the Past: The Third National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada, October 2003. Duration: 34:18.

Discusses whether the forcible transfer of children should be classified genocide, or alternate terminology used, and what the legal, social, political consequences could be in either instance.

Discusses using the term cultural genocide for the legacy of the residential school system and its legal, social, and political implications.

Looks at the life of Indigenous reformer Gertrude Bonnin and her fight to move Indigenous Americans away from a tribal orientation towards a more pan-Indian culture through education.

Looks at how educational and societal ideologies shaped girls' writing and its reception by examining content of students' essays. Chapter from Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present edited by Jane Greer.

Examines the anthropological work of Gladys Reichard, both the flaws and successes in her work.

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

Looks at the historical relationship between native Americans and white people in the United States, and discusses goals to "educate", "civilize", and "Christianize" native people in the early colonial days.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2001.

Looks at how aboriginal people resisted the educational efforts of the Oblates and the sisters who taught at the Hobbema residential school.

[Educational Administration?]Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 1992.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 1994.

Gives overview of the events leading to the Settlement Agreement including: history of the system, criminal, civil, and class action cases, the Official Apology, Settlement Agreement and the establishment of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As well, discusses lessons that may be learned when considering a resolution with Australia's Aborigine population.

Honors History Thesis (B.A.) --Vanderbilt University, 2008.

Historical overview of Carlisle Indian Industrial School which provided education and industrial training of American Indians.

Looks at how white women were involved in the removal of American Indian children to boarding schools and that their involvement implicated them in one of the most cruel, yet largely unexamined, policies of colonialism within the American West.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, San Bernardino, 2020.

Argues that while Canadian society no longer publicly promotes assimilation, it still remains the underlying objective.

Image of a large group of indigenous children, possibly a class, all wearing dark western clothing sitting outside with a woman, possibly their teacher.

Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2000.

Gwen Beck is a long time resident of La Ronge who has taken a keen interest in local, social and political affairs.

A studio photograph of Harold Eagle and his wife Lucy Littlecrow, who lived on Moose Woods (Whitecap Dakota) Reserve.

Focuses on the daily routine, curriculum, health standards, and students' acts of resistance at the school.

American Culture Thesis ( Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2013.

Offers some guidelines for non-First Nations therapists working with First Nations clients. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1999.

Looks at the key findings of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and its relevance to residential school experience.

Contains links to survivor stories, history, as well as 2013 and 2002 lessons.

Looks at a culturally-based, healing process, for understanding and recovering from a traumatic experience. Duration: 59:40.

Analysis of one school district's educational reform initiative to improve the academic standing of its students.