Residential & Boarding Schools

Book reviews of: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by A. J. Woolford, J. Benvenuto and Al. L. Hinton. This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 175.

Looks at the inner psychic conflicts of American Indian boarding school students in Indian boarding school environments, the interactions between aspects of the school environment, and the cultural and political beliefs complex process of assimilation that occurs in Indian boarding school residential settings.

Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.

Looks at institutional practices, such a physical restraints, behaviour modification and life-skills training, and questions if they serve the purpose to which they are designed.

Representative from the Indian Residential School Survivor's Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools. Duration: 20:51. Part 2. Part 3.

Comments on the author and his brothers' experiences with residential schools, both while attending and while trying to integrate back into the community.

Discusses how the Canadian Cree have been forced into spatial and ideological exile, and how oral traditions can renew collective memory. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Brief interview with well-known writer discusses the residential boarding school program in the United States, in particular the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Film criticism which discusses Lightning’s movie as an act of resistance to colonial backlash to reconciliation, and to settler narratives regarding Indian Residential Schools.

Looks at the ways various communities are helping band members prepare for their residential school settlement payments. Article located by scrolling to page 16.

Case study emphasizes the importance of archival practices which follow cultural and ethical best practices and involve the community in order to correct past biases and ensure that Indigenous voices are present in the historical record.

Report published in 1970 looks at the history, physical plant and operations of three Bureau of Indian Affairs schools: Phoenix Indian School, Chemawa Indian School, and the Theodore Roosevelt School.

Examines the meaning of healing among the staff and clients of a Native American community-based counseling program regarding the therapeutic approach used to address the harmful psychosocial legacy of the Aboriginal residential schools.

Foundation hopes that process will strengthen the ability to secure funding for activities when the Foundation no longer exists.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1997.

Compares two books, written more than twenty years apart, for their strengths, weaknesses, biases, and value to Native American Studies.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--West Virginia University, 2006.

Looks at the pros and cons of using the nosological category and the Independent Assessment Process to claim compensation for abuses and wrong doings for victims suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Discusses the need to develop strategies for assisting communities move forward by understanding both the traditional and contemporary family dynamic.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Montana State University, 2005

Focuses on residential schools and assimilationist policies.

Details the various tactics used by Indian Agent R.S. Mackenzie: coerced baptisms, arrests, police manhunts, and withholding rations.

Traces residential school events from the first missionary-operated school in 1620 to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2008.

Topics include: tracing changes in administration of a Band, First Nation, or residential school; filing systems, school file series; finding records; using archives search; consulting records; and accessing records from a remote location.

File contains 6 images from a Confirmation ceremony for students at the Prince Albert Indian Student Residence. Scanned image shows sixty nine students posed with clergy (presumably Anglican or Roman Catholic) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on April 20, 1969.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2015.

Outlines policy and legal issues that governments must address, in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous peoples, in order to develop a suitable framework and discusses international approaches that exist when dealing with similar circumstances. Appendix discusses terminology.

Illustrates how two countries deal with historical legacies of violence and repression.

Comments on the shared responsibility of the Aboriginal people and the federal and provincial governments to reconcile constitutional rights to education. Scroll to page 81 to read article.

Discusses observations that emerged from interviewing alumni, students and staff from an Oklahoma boarding school.

Authors examine the current understandings of trauma and the resulting frameworks for treatment and healing; use critical literature review to make recommendations for effective trauma treatments for residential school survivors.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2000.

Looks at Aboriginal child rearing practices to determine if traditional ways are still in use and if so, how these practices differ from mainstream child rearing.

Session One from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Includes prayer and opening remarks and discussion on settlement negotiations. Duration: 1:54:14.

First Nations symbolically accept the government's apology for its involvement in the residential school system.

Discusses a tent hostel that ran from 1951 to 1959 in western Nunavut. The tents had wood floors and were warmed by oil heaters.

Guide to documents held in 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 detailed description from MemoryBC.

Addresses the issue that Aboriginal women in Canada are regularly abused and murdered and little is done at official levels to counter this.

Letter from Inspector of Indian Agencies for Saskatchewan to Indian Agents relating to progress report cards for children attending Indian Schools. Links to examples of blank progress reports.

Prospect of residential school settlements prompts search for new financial plan.

General information concerning the languages, history, natural history and education in the territory. Includes links to announcements, employment, press releases and the General Assembly 2007.

Focuses on women who have suffered from the residential school system and other aspects of colonization.

Contends that using a family systems therapy approach would benefit the territory of Nunavut.

Using official records from the first and largest off-reservation Indian boarding school in his case study, the author challenges the objectivity of morality rates. Factors such as definition of a student or alumni and including ill students that were discharged before their deaths can change the numbers drastically.

Supreme Court overturns appeal ruling in residential schools case that held churches were exempt under the doctrine of "charitable immunity."

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2001.