Residential Schools and "Reconciliation" in the Media Art of Skeena Reece and Lisa Jackson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristin Dowell
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 116-138
Description
"This article discusses the historical trauma and ongoing intergenerational legacy of the Indian Residential School system in Canada".
Residential Schools at the Crossroads
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Benham
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 16, no. 2, January 1977, pp. [20-26]
Description
Discusses need for contemporary changes to Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools including, fewer students and improved teacher skills.
Residential Schools: Creating and Continuing Institutionalization Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Rand
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 56-65
Description
Reviews the history of residential schools, other institutions, Goffman's notion of Total Institution and the consequences these institutions have had on Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Residential Schools: Did They Really Close or Just Morph Into Child Welfare?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 71-78
Description
Article provides background on the complaint filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission seeking redress for an inequitable child funding policy.
Residential Schools for Native Children in Canada and the USA
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Nichols
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2008, pp. 9-21
Description
Discusses how historically both countries shared motivations and educational goals for residential schools and looks at contemporary responses.
Scroll down to page 9 to read article.
Residential Schools in Canada: History, Healing and Hope
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Glynn Sharpe
International Journal of Learning & Development, vol. 1, no. 1, December 6, 2011, pp. 212-219
Description
Article contains: brief history of the system, summarized list of abuses, testimonial given by school survivor Dr. Eugene Norman, and a list of the recommendations found in the Assembly of First Nations' publication Breaking the Silence.
Residential Schools in Canada Research Paper
Alternate Title
OMFRC Special Edition
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Métis Family Records Centre
Description
Focusing on the history of residential schools in Canada. Asserts the government and churches attempted to eliminate aboriginal culture.
Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
D. R. F. Taylor
Stephanie Pyne
Description
Project involves mapping the schools themselves, as well as survivors' gatherings and reunions, exhibitions, survivor stories, and news stories, and creating digital records for images, videos, and other related content.
Residential Schools Litigation and the Legal Profession
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trevor C.W. Farrow
University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, Special Issue: The Residential School Litigation and Settlement, 2014, pp. 596-619
Description
Discusses shortfalls in the handling of processes for dealing with residential school litigation and dispute resolution involving survivors, their families and claims.
The Residential Schools Litigation Process
Alternate Title
Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes, Session 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Celeste Poltak
James Scott
Mitchell Taylor
Bruce Feldthusen
Terrence McMahon
Description
Plaintiffs', church, and government representatives as well a judge and academic speak about the process.
Session Two from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes.
Duration: 1:19:03.
[Residential Schools Narrative Histories]
Alternate Title
[Independent Assessment Process School Narrative]
[IAP School School Narrative]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Government of Canada]
Description
Produced as part of government response to litigations and the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Links to one document for each of the residential schools. Contain information such as: name of school and variants; chronological history; management; school buildings; land; enrollment statistics; school incidents and principals/administrators.
Residential Schools, Respect, and Responsibilities for Past Harms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Borrows
University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, Special Issue; The Residential School Litigation and Settlement, 2014, pp. 486-504
Description
Discusses different viewpoints by the courts, churches and governments for responsibility of residential schools in Canada and suggests using customary law to help speak to this responsibility.
Residential Schools: The Intergenerational Impacts on Aboriginal Peoples
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryle Partridge
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010
Description
Investigates the role and impacts of residential schools on Aboriginal traditional knowledge.
Residential Schools: The Past Is Present
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pierre Laboisser
James Craven
Roland Chrisjohn
Doug Henwood
Description
Transcription of radio program about the United Church. Tape 1 - Apology given by the United Church of Canada in 1986; Tape 2 - Residential Schools: The Past and Present; Tape 3A - WBAI Interview - Economics and Politics (2/15/98); Tape 3B - WBAI Interview: 6/18/98.
Residential Schools: [The Report]
Alternate Title
Dark Night Field Notes #17
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Roland Chrisjohn
Description
Excerpts from conference held in Fredericton, New Brunswick on May 24, 2000. Author discusses his report written for Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Justice and his book The Circle Game.
Residential Schools Update #15 --November 20, 2002
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jim Boyles
Description
Agreement between Government of Canada, General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada Resolution Corporation dealing with Indian Residential School. Initialled as an agreement-in-principle November 20, 2002.
Resisting the Script of Indian Education: Zitkala Ša and the Carlisle Indian School
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jessica Enoch
College English, vol. 65, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 117-141
Description
Argues that the author used her essays to criticize the school's agenda "civilizing" students and to assert that Native Americans should determine their own educational needs.
Resolution: An Interview with Elder Joseph Williams
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joanna Rice
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Truth Commissions, Spring, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Elder discuses his experiences in the residential school system, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and his role as an advisor to it.
Respect, Relationship & Responsibility: Enacting the Journey to Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Nation2Nation Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Charlene Bearhead
Description
Presents examples of how reconciliation can be enacted in everyday life and talks about the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Project of Heart and the film Students in the Classroom.
Duration: 41:56.
A Respectable Solution to the Indian Problem: Canadian Genocidal Intent, Non-Physical Conceptions of Destruction and the Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq 1867-1969
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mercedes Peters
Description
Looks at non-physical forms of genocide such as legal, cultural and ethnical by the destruction of language, culture and enforced poverty.
History Honours Paper (B.A.)--Acadia University, 2016.
Response to Canada's Apology to Residential School Survivors
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 223-225
Description
President of the Native Women's Association of Canada's statement given before the House of Commons after government's apology was read.
Response to Nielsen et al.: Coyote & Raven Discuss Mathematics, Complexity Theory and Aboriginality
Alternate Title
Coyote and Raven Discuss Mathematics, Complexity Theory and Aboriginality
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Cole
Pat O'Reilly
Complicity, vol. 5, no. 1, 2008, pp. 49-62
Description
Discusses learning styles, within the context of cultural circumstances, for Aboriginal peoples.
The Responses of American Indian Children to Presbyterian Schooling the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis through Missionary Sources
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael C. Coleman
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 473-497
Description
Examines detailed reports on schools and pupils which were sent headquarters in New York. Focuses on four groups: Choctaws, Creeks, Omahas and the Nez Perces.
Restorying Relationships and Performing Resurgence: How Indigenous Storytelling Shapes Residential School Testimony
Theses
Author/Creator
Melanie Braith
Description
English, Theatre, Film, and Media Thesis--University of Manitoba, 2020.
Focuses on Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway; Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie; Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese; and As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman.
Results of the Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test Given in a Beginners' Class and First and Second Grades
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evelyn Edward
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 5, no. 3, May 1966, pp. [6-10]
Description
Responses showed little difference between the Navajo results and those obtained in the Koppitz study.
Scroll to appropriate article.
Rethinking Child Welfare Reform in British Columbia, 1900-60
Alternate Title
Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marilyn Callahan
Christopher Walmsley
Description
"This chapter highlights the importance of not discarding our past but, rather, understanding the actions of social work pioneers within the context of their times and gaining appreciation for their accomplishments".
Introduction and Chapter 1 from People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia edited by Leslie T. Foster and Brian Wharf.
Rethinking Reconciliation: Thoughts on the Canadian Government's Initiatives to Reconcile the State-Indigenous Relationship
Alternate Title
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 83rd, 2011]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michelle Honkanen
Description
Argues that Canada must begin to develop trusting, long-term and collaborative relationships with Indigenous people in the spirit of the treaties in order for reconciliation to take place.