Residential & Boarding Schools

History Thesis (M.A.)--Laurentian University, 2008.

Discusses government's and churches' goals for female students, and their failure to achieve them. Focuses on schools located in Fort Qu'Appelle and North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and High River, Alberta.

Story of a man's struggle with alcohol, depression and bipolar disease.

Proceedings of a conference held May 12-14, 1994, in Bkejwanong, Ontario.

Book review of: Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory edited by David T. McNab. A collection of conference presentations at Walpole Island in 1994, include Olive Dickason and Dean Jacobs.

Education Thesis (Ed.D,)--Tennessee State University, 2001.

Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.

Discusses changes to journal's layout and design and presents introduction to issue.

Highlights the theme of the issue that focuses on children and youth.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1999.

Looks at how the education program for native girls in industrial schools failed to attain its goals of assimilating them into American society.

Argues that education has been used as a tool for assimilation and that reflection on its power and control is necessary in resisting cultural homogenization.

Discusses the architecture of residential schools and uses the examples of St. Michael's and St. Eugene (located in British Columbia) to illustrate the issues about disposition of the original structures.

Chronicles the evolution of Inuit education policy in Canada's North. Scroll down to page 21 for English version.

Contends that education can create a path towards reconciling past historical trauma.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2006.

Rita Joe's poetry seeks to find a balance between the oppressor and the oppressed.

Connects the decline in ali'i births to the residential Hawaiian missionary run Chiefs' Children's School where colonial Puritan policies eventually put an end to future generations of Hawaiian rulers.

Collection of sayings and "teachings".

Evaluation of schools was part of the final report of The National Study of American Indian Education conducted in the 1970s which is commonly known as the "Havighurst Report".

Brief article from 1881 describes the establishment of Carlisle Indian School and the introduction of American Indian students to the Hampton Institute. Both were initiatives of Richard Henry Pratt. Entire issue on one pdf., to access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Folder containing information on the integration of indigenous schools, a copy of St. Paul's School's yearbook, Correspondence relating to the Indian Act, indigenous schools, the opening of Pointe-Bleue School, the construction of new school on the Moose Woods Reserve at Dundurn and a 200 bed residential school for the Squamish Band. Also Correspondence regarding the Assumption Indian Residential School, and quality of education.

Folder containing notes regarding the opening of a residential school at south end of Reindeer Lake.

Folder containing cross reference sheet regarding: List -- Teachers Indian Day and Residential Schools -- 1960-61 -- Saskatchewan Region.

Comments on the struggle for equal and special rights for the Sami people in the Norwegian education system. Chapter from Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education edited by H. Niedrig and C. Ydesen.

Sociology Theses (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.

Educational Leadership Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Dakota, 2008.

Study of the school and the principal's daily activities during the 1960s as a Federally operated residential school and as operated by the Yukon Department of Education in 2008.

Study suggests that residential schooling caused increased adult height and decreased adult body weight of the average child who attended.

Cross-sectional study uses data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey collected from 4,840 youth aged 12-17. Findings indicate that interpersonal factors and historical contexts’ shape Indigenous Youth’s participation in sports and physical activity.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1999.

English and American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Masaryk University, 2005.

Educational Administration and Leadership Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of British Columbia, 1990.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2016.

Briefly discusses how the influential educator contributed to the concept of the school system.

Comments on the proposed agreement for Aboriginal peoples who can prove they attended residential schools, and discusses the compensation they will receive.

The Eighth Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners includes reports of living conditions on reservations; correspondence and transcripts of meetings between government officials and Aboriginal chiefs and officials; and lists of Indian Agencies with names of tribes and agents. Includes a map of the Nex Perce Indian Reservation located in present-day Idaho.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

Comments on George Hunter, an Elder from Saddle Lake First Nation northeast of Edmonton.

Elders, men and women, reminisce on their early lives involving hard work and strict discipline and voice regrets that the young people of today are not given enough guidance.

Discusses, with Elders, what constitutes an appropriate educational experience for Indigenous students.

Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she describes the smallpox epidemic following World War I. She gives a description of basket making, an account of life in a Catholic school in Chicago and an account of New Year's celebrations amongst children.

Guide to residential school records held by the United Church Archive in British Columbia. Arranged alphabetically by the name of the collection or fonds, with the ability to click on title and access more detailed description from MemoryBC.

Discusses the history and milestones of Elkhorn Indian Residential School, which ran from 1888 until 1949.

Topics included: American Indian Culture in Transition, Sources of Mental Stress in Indian Acculturation, Avoidance of Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health of Indian Boarding School Children, Psychological Conflicts of Adolescents, Helping the Adolescent in School, etc.

Contends that all Canadians should be interested in the Final Report, the Executive Summary and the Calls to Action produced by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Looks at "the crucial link that Julia Kristeva makes between tradition and form-giving in respect of trauma and ethics" in Joseph Boyden's novel.