Churches

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Vermont, 2009.

Recommends the only way through trauma is reconciliation involving both restoration and recovery through traditional teachings.

Discusses the resignation of two commissioners from the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission due to a conflict with the chair of the commission.

Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions mandate to hear from those who have been affected by residential schools, including the Anglican Church of Canada.

Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel. Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer. Scroll down to page 113 to read chapter.

Discusses a speech given by Bob Watts, the interim executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, regarding residential school abuse and how it is now time to work towards healing.

Chronological list of the United Church's apologies to various Aboriginal groups and First Nations Peoples.

Church in background.

Article draws on the journals of Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas in New South Wales to describe and examine corroborees (Indigenous spiritual ceremonies) taking place in the early 1850s. Author considers the role of syncretism in Indigenous peoples’ process of understanding European systems of belief.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2004.

Justice Donald Brenner (BCSC) found the United Church of Canada legally responsible for the abuse suffered by the students at the Port Alberni Indian Residential School.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

Briefly discusses the lawsuit launched by former students of Alberni Indian Residential School in January 1996, now jointly and severally naming United Church of Canada and the Federal Government.

Three parts: background and content of 1988 Apology to former students, families and communities; outline of steps taken by the church since then; reflections on challenges still facing the church as whole and its Aboriginal members.

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2009

Focuses on role of Anglican organizations and colleges at the university and the connections that were created to establish and maintain the schools.

An Unidentified group of people in front of a log building, possibly an Anglican congregation, 19th Century. Probably somewhere in present-day central or southern Saskatchewan.

Historical note:

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Full version (1 hr. 48 min.) of documentary about abuse at residential schools which won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Best Director for an International Documentary at the New York International Film Festival. Based on Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.

Review of pertinent court decisions involving the assignment of responsibility for acts of abuse carried out by employees of residential schools.

Discusses the Supreme Court of Canada's rulings in the cases Blackwater v Plint and E.B. v Order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Province of Ontario. Both cases involved abuse suffered at a residential school and the liability of the churches which employed the abuser.

File contains two negatives from an upgrading course at the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, April 30, 1964. Scanned image shows a group portrait of students in formal attire.

Author examines the different ways that Mexican national culture and Indigenous Nahua culture interact, adopt each other’s practices, and blend together at intersections of meaning and practice.

Law Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sussex, 2012.

Argues that ADR provides the most viable solution to class action suits because its flexibility allows accommodation of the interests of churches, government and victims.

The author explores different expressions of conversion to Catholicism in the daily practices of the different Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay area; considers where people chose to give birth or die and the practice of various traditional protocols.

Consists of an interview where Verna Patronella Johnston speaks of uses for traditional foods and medicines. She also gives an account of Grandma Jones, a storyteller.

Verna Richards ran the La Ronge Cafe in the 1950s and 1960s. She knew many of the local people including Brady and Norris.

Image of boy standing in trenches in field. Church and buildings visible in background. Batoche historical site.

Image of the old rectory at left and church at right at Batoche National Historic Site in Saskatchewan; summer scene.

The interview is a general account of Violet Marie Arnault's life.

Discusses the development of respectful relationships between the Garden River Anishinaabe and the Anglican Diocese of Algoma from the beginning to the present.

Book review of:A Voice in the Land: Essays By and About Rudy Wiebe edited by W. J. Keith.

Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.

Discussion of the unique administrative model of the Diocese of Keewatin and their interest in having material in Oji-Cree.

This file contains copies of records from the General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, pertaining to St. Barnabas' Mission on the Onion Lake Indian Reserve, operated by the Church Missionary Society until l921. Most of the material consists of letters by the missionary to the Society in England and extracts from the missionary's journals, 1876-1895. Also included is a typed chronology of the mission to 1983 and a typed copy of an account of the Frog Lake Massacre told by Mr. J.S. Buller in l969.

Comments on the importance and uses of wampum in the 1600 and 1700's.

Book review of: Warriors of the North Pacific by Charles Lillard. Scroll down to page 52 to read review.

Discusses the historical and political challenges for Indigenous religions in the United States. Despite these challenges Indigenous religions have survived and even had a resurgence within Indigenous communities.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2009

Presents a general discussion of children's behaviour in church and mentions the release of a hymnal in the Kwak'wala language.

Book review of: Western Challenge by Peter Bush.

Author urges expansion of missionary activities, including schools, in the interest of "civilizing" and assimilating the "inferior race". Reflects the attitudes and policies of the time.

Movie about a young girl and her brother who are forced to attend residential school. Duration: 1:37:23.

Includes film review, suggestions for appropriate courses, discussion of pedagogical usefulness, and study questions.

Discusses the wide range of emotions Anglicans may feel due to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions findings and reports regarding the churches association with residential schools.

Features stories of people participating in the sharing circle held at the Winnipeg event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Duration: 27:30.

Negotiations of Treaty #8 regarding promises made, and requests for reserve land at Fort MacKay.

William Okeymaw was 12 years old at the time when he attended the Treaty #8 negotiations.He describes the negotiations and his understanding of the promises made; the role of the missionaries; talks of some of the Indian agents; and the abundance of buffalo in Lesser Slave Lake area at one time.