Abuse

Discusses the similarities and differences in the three important transitional justice goals: reparation, responsibility and reframing, and concludes that Canada’s injustices have made the barriers to pursuing notions of transitional justice much greater.

Due to a negotiated settlement, the victims of residential schools will soon receive compensation. This article argues that it is now time to look to the future.

Examines how the schools practices were designed to disrupt child/community relationship by removing Anishinaabe language.

Documentary chronicles the life of a residential school survivor. Duration: 55:03.

Discussion with Margaret Wapass, who intends to utilize traditional holistic counseling in order to address residential school syndrome, intergenerational impacts, crime prevention, corrections services and addictions.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

Shows how Michael Burawoy's four types of sociology (policy, critical, professional, public) contribute to transforming the private into the public.

Looks at how a continuing history of repeated traumatic events, that have affected entire Aboriginal communities, make it difficult for the process of healing to take place.

Looks at inter-generational effects by investigating direct or indirect exposure to trauma experiences of two groups: community members who were residential schools survivors and community members who did not attend residential schools.

Shows how Cree storytelling is used in healing from the residential school experience and building knowledge that resists colonialism.

Discussion of the history of the social problems, litigation and abuse that are products of the residential schools.

"In this paper, I argue that Indian Residential School (IRS) litigation, and the emphasis on "cultural loss" or genocide, threatened to expose the illegitimacy of Canada's claim to sovereignty and the settler collective's occupancy of Indigenous lands today".

Book review of Truth and Indignation by Ronald Niezen.

Looks at the priorities of the Commission including determining vision and making plans for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission launch. Article located by scrolling to page 23.

Discusses the objectives and mandate of the TRC and the need for Aboriginal People to tell their residential school survivor stories with the hope of healing and growing. Article found by scrolling to page 5.

Looks at an event for residential school survivors expected to have an estimated 80,000 people in attendance. Article located by scrolling to page 11.

Looks at the office opening of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, the mandate of the committee, and the creative ways testimonies are received. Article found by scrolling to page 8.

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

Remarks by Marie Wilson, Truth and Reconciliation of Canada Commissioner, including how the Canadian TRC is unique to others in the world and the mandate and purpose of the TRC. Followed by excerpts from survivors stories. Duration: 30:19.

PLEASE NOTE: Video starts 25 minute mark.

Video of speech given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Commissioner from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses the history of residential schools, their impact on Aboriginal society, and the role of the Commission. Duration: 1:1:56.

Discusses the need for closure that governs not only novels like Porcupines and China Dolls but also national discourses around Aboriginal issues.

Discusses the potential of the Commission in terms of non-Aboriginal engagement and redefining attitudes in mainstream society.

Argues that residential schools must be viewed as only one part of a general attack on Aboriginal identity and culture.

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.

Comments on a group of Indigenous teenagers who use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic and bullying in their remote community. Duration: 16:31.

Describes the steps the author used to understand the legacy of the residential school experience and how to teach a new curriculum.

Results of a survey conducted in 2002 found that respondents main wish was to have a safe environment and feel safe about their sexuality.

Argues that Canada's commission faces many of the same challenges and obstacles as truth commissions associated with under-developed countries emerging from authoritarian regimes.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook University, 2017.

Uses a review of the film Rabbit Proof Fenceas a starting point for a discussion of the residential school system in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India.

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.

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.

Survivors of the Thomas Indian School in New York state and the Mohawk Institute (The Mush Hole) of southern Ontario relate their experiences. Duration: 29:50.

Discusses the effectiveness of the reconciliation processes, and the equitable reconciliatory practices needed for the healing process.

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.

Author reflects on his experiences at Old Sun Residential School and finding personal reconciliation through his art.

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.

Book review of: Victims of Benevolence by Elizabeth Furniss.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2018.

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

Presents some of the author's personal life experiences.

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.

Highlights a volunteer of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's national event. Article located by scrolling to page 15.

Based on presentations given at a three-day healing gathering held for residential school survivors in November 2009 at the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.