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Deviant Constructions: How Governments Preserve Colonial Narratives of Addictions and Poor Mental Health to Intervene into the Lives of Indigenous Children and Families in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah de Leeuw
Margo Greenwood
Emilie Cameron
International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 282-295
Argues that current interventions into child welfare are a continuation of past patriarchal attitudes and actions which in turn have produced unhealthy families and communities.
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Digital Decolonization and Activist Tagging in the Post-Apology Residential School Database

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS ; 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Danielle Allard
Shawna Ferris
Kiera Ladner
Carmen Miedema
Database is a collection of news media responses to and representations of the schools since the Canadian government's official apology in 2008. Authors describe their approach to archival description and outline how project members and "guest taggers" describe, organize and display records to promote decolonization.
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Digital Stories: First Nations Women Explore the Legacy of Residential Schools

Alternate Title
Am My Mother`s Daughter
Mary-Lou and Me
My Journey Into Motherhood
nikâwiy ekwa niya
Walking In A Good Way on Mother Earth
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Claudette Michell
Lisa Forbes
Lisa Murdock
Lorena Fontaine
Roberta Stout
Wendy McNab
Six brief videos by daughters of women who are residential school survivors. Done in conjunction with the kiskinohamâtôtâpânâsk: Inter-generational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors project.
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Diocese of Cariboo Plans Own Shutdown

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kathy Blair
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 7, September 2000, p. 3
Diocese expected to terminate its operations due financial impact of residential schools lawsuits.
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Dis/engagement: Zitkala-Ŝa's Letters to Carlos Montezuma, 1901-1902

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruth Spack
MELUS, vol. 26, no. 1, Varieties of the Ethnic Experience, Spring, 2001, pp. 172-204
Article explores the biographical, historical and sociocultural context of the correspondence housed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Discipline and Our Children

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Allan Noonan
Presentation by Principal of Kamloops Residential School explains his approach to discipling students.
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Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: 9 Myths & Realities

Alternate Title
Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: Nine Myths & Realities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bob Joseph
Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.
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Distribution des paiements d'experience commune (PEC) = Distribution of Common Experience Payment (CEP)

Alternate Title
Common Experience Payment (CEP) Map
Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indien = Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Shows locations where payments were made and proportion to total amount paid to former students of residential schools. Source: Single Access to Dispute Resolution Enterprise (SADRE) data from September 19, 2007 to March 31, 2016.
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Distribution des règlements des demandes du Processus d'évaluation indépendant (PEI) = Distribution of Independent Assessment Process (IAP) Settlements [Map 2: September 19, 2007-December 31, 2018]

Alternate Title
Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens = Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Shows amount and number range for each province based on location of residential school for which compensation received.
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Distribution des règlements des demandes du Processus d'évaluation indépendant (PEI) = Distribution of Independent Assessment Process (IAP) Settlements [Map 2: September 19, 2007- November, 2017]

Alternate Title
Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens = Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Shows amount and number range for each province based on location of residential school for which compensation received.
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Do Discrimination, Residential School Attendance and Cultural Disruption Add to Individual-Level Diabetes Risk among Aboriginal People in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roland F. Dyck
Chandima Karunanayake
Bonnie Janzen
Josh Lawson
Vivian R. Ramsden
Donna C. Rennie
Jenny Gardipy
Laura McCallum
Sylvia Abonyi
James A. Dosman
Jo-Ann Episkenew
Punam Pahwa
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
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Does the Residential School ADR Process Effect Reconciliation?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gregory R. Hagen
Argues that the alternate dispute resolution (ADR) process relies too heavily on tort law without incorporating Aboriginal perspectives, has been arrived at without agreement or census of those affected, and may lead to re-victimization. Based on presentation at Residential Schools Legacy: Is Reconciliation Possible? conference.
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Doing Public History in Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Alternate Title
National Council for Public History Keynote Address
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Milloy
The Public Historian, vol. 35, no. 4, November 2013, pp. 10-19
"The author discusses his experience with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, charged with writing a history of the residential school system for First Nations students in Canada and with producing an archive accessible to both scholarly researchers and the public."
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Don't You Hear the Red Man Calling?

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Samuel Hume Blake]

Includes correspondence and quotes from a range of public and private individuals including Hume, Frank Pedley, John Hines, church officials, a Report of Special Indian Committee (1908) on policies, the state of health, death, and education in industrial and residential schools.

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Donations to Healing Fund on the Decline

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 130, no. 8, October 2004, p. 7
Money diverted to settlement fund for former students of residential schools.
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Dormitory Living at Rough Rock

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruth Roessel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 7, no. 3, May 1968, pp. [32-35]
Cites initiatives to create a stronger link between the home and school life such as the Dormitory Parent Program.
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[Dr. James S. Frideres: First Nations in the Twenty-First Century]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
James S. Frideres
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Podcast of interview with author explores issues such as Aboriginal culture, residential schools and intergenerational trauma. Duration: 34:54.
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Drastic Facts about Our Indians and Our Indian System

Alternate Title
Our Forlorn Indians
What's the Matter with Our Indians?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Richard H. Pratt]

Founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and proponent of residential school system in the U.S., argues that assimilation is required "to help the Indians to progress into civilization".

Language and content reflect the attitudes of the times but would be considered offensive by modern standards.

 

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Dreams and Nightmares in First Nations Fiction

Theses
Author/Creator
Lena Ruwoldt
Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Greifswald, 2017. Focuses on Robert Arthur Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls, Cherie Dimaline's Red Rooms, Richard Van Camp's "On the Wings of This Prayer" and Richard Wagamese's Ragged Company.
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Drug List

E-Books
The file contains two booklets entitled "Drug List No. 3: Standard Medical and Surgical Supplies." The booklets contain a list of drugs with the description "This list is intended for the guidance of Indian Agents, Doctors, Principals of Indian Residential Schools, Nurses, Field Matrons and Dispensers, in making requisitions for drugs and surgical supplies for the treatment of Indians." One copy is the original, the other a later revised edition.
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Due North: James Madison, the American Modern Wall of Separation, and the Canadian Indian Residential Schools: New Lessons Concerning Older Notions about the Separation of Church and State

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daniel R. Gordon
Cumberland Law Review, vol. 32, no. 2, 2001-2002, pp. 281-310
Argues that the Canadian experience of joint government/church involvement in residential schools proves the validity of American policy of separation of church and state, and the court decisions which upheld it.
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Dying for an Education: Little Charlie

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Jody Porter]
CBC radio documentary about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966. Duration: 11:11.
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