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Witness: Pieces of History

Alternate Title
[The Witness Blanket]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Media One
Description
Website for Carey Newman's large-scale art installation, The Witness Blanket, which was created from objects gathered from the sites of residential schools across Canada. Contains trailer for documentary, background to the project, full view of the work, links to media stories, and artist's statement and biography.
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Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Scott Watson
Geoffrey Carr
Robert Joseph
Description
Curatorial catalogue of works and artist biographies from an exhibition, mounted September 6-December 1, 2013, centring on residential schools.
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Women Acknowledged For All That They Survived

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 5, August 2012, p. 10
Description

Comments on stories heard at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event held in Saskatoon, June 2012, especially those of women abused while at residential schools and when they returned to their communities.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

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Women, Contemporary Aboriginal Issues, and Resistance

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Rita Shelton Deverell
Shirley Bear
Dorothy Christian
Ruth Cuthand
Joan Glode
Ursula A. Johnson
Mount Saint Vincent University
Description
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations. Duration: 1:22:38.
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Writing the Talking Stick: Alphabetic Literacy as Colonial Technology and Postcolonial Appropriation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
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[The Yearning Journey: Escape From Alcoholism]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ella Pappas-Matthews
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 243-245
Description
Book review of: The Yearning Journey: Escape From Alcoholism by Campbell Papequash with Maury Fraser.
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"You Don't Just Get Over What Has Happened to You"? Story Sharing, Reconciliation, and Grandma's Journey in the Child Welfare System

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Autumn Varley
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Special Issue: The Sixties Scoop and Indigenous Child Welfare, 2016, pp. 69-75
Description
Sixties Scoop experiences by a grandmother, mother, aunt and sister reveal the continuing impact on identity, family and community.
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Yukon First Nation Mental Wellness Workbook

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Duu Chuu Management
Marilyn Van Bibber
Tandi Brown
Heather Holland
Description
Workbook was designed to create a toolkit of resources for front line workers, and health and social directors and staff.
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Yukon Hostels — Dawson City and Whitehorse

Alternate Title
Anglican Residential Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
General Synod Archives
Anglican Church of Canada
Description
Looks at St. Paul's and St. Agnes Hostel, which housed Métis children who were not eligible to attend Chooutla School at Carcross.
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