Abuse

Discusses a reimbursement issued to the Anglican Church of Canada by the federal government due to a change in the agreement for compensation of residential school abuse victims.

Residential schools agreement has dioceses approval, but congregations must make contributions to meet financial obligations.

Decision details eight years of abuse inflicted on boys by Derek Clarke and states that principal and bishop must have had knowledge of his actions.

Campaign to urge federal government to settle the residential schools issue.

Discussion of some of the recommendations to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), including urging government to apologize for residential schools.

Interview with Lawrence Flett , former student at Gordon Indian Residential School.

Settlements and legal fees incurred in residential schools lawsuits force church into deficit even after disposing of liquid assets.

Discusses whether the federal government will choose to initiate alternative dispute resolution as opposed to litigation in resolving the 700 Indian Residential school lawsuits in British Columbia.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.

Overview of a creative discussion guide, prepared by writers from Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches, that can be used to explore the issue of forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.

Focuses on the residential school survivors conference theme of pressure strategies for improved claim resolution

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.

Comments on the Australian Prime Minister's February 13th, 2008 apology to the country's indigenous peoples for past wrong doings.

Comments on the disparities between Canadian First Nations children and those of other Canadian children.

Book review of: The Circle Game by Roland Christjohn and Sherri Young.

Book review of: The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada by Roland Chrisjohn, Sherri Young, Michael Maraun. Book review found by scrolling to page 226.

Comments on a play, produced by the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company's Circle of Voices, that looks at issues such as cultural identity and the intergenerational effects of residential school. Article located by scrolling to page 21.

Brief overview of government policies aimed at eradicating Native Americans, discussion of how schools fit into achieving these goals, and possibilities for achieving redress through litigation.

Uses judicial decisions to examine how plaintiffs have fared in tort actions focusing on three issues: credibility, damage assessment and vicarious liability.

Public Policy Program Thesis (M.P.P.)--Simon Fraser University, 2006.

Applications for a common experience payment rejected by federal government due to lack of record of attendance at residential schools.

Presents an examination of how Highway's novel wrestles with the terms of the Residential School debate to explore the meaning of the Residential School experience in imaginative, mythic, and spiritual terms. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 66.

Provides clarification of the Canadian law of class actions and gives guidance for anyone considering a class action suit regarding residential school abuse.

"Paper presented at Canadian Aboriginal Law 2007, Pacific Business and Law Institute, November 16, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario". Provides historical and current views, procedural issues and the aboriginal law experiences of class action.

Comments on what the National Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples meant and what remains to be done as a country. Duration: 33:18.

Legal costs for residential school lawsuits will be paid from reserves in the Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood, with Gillian Thomas.

Discusses colonial suppression and attempts to extinguish Indigenous cultures and looks at ways to redress colonial injustices against Indigenous peoples.

Discusses how past colonial laws have harmed Aboriginal peoples and offers alternative forms of justice to redress the effects of those policies and practices. .

Looks at the influences of colonialism on Aboriginal mental health with emphasis on the effects of intergenerational trauma on communities.

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.

Looks at how Anglican church representatives were met by a group of angry protesters against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Indigenous Covenant Implementation Commission explores issues of indigenous self-sufficiency, governance and the position of a national Indigenous bishop.

Canada's Truth and Reconcilation Commission will focus on the suffering by First Nations and Metis children while at residential schools.

Discusses the mandate of a yet-to-be formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding deaths and disappearances of former students in 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.

Abstracts of works in the Research Series. Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton. Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.

Discussion of residential school abuse and the 3,700 lawsuit claims from Saskatchewan.

Brief profile of a residential school survivor and health support worker whose role was to assist other survivors at the June 2012 Truth and Reconciliation National event in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Article located by scrolling to page 8.

Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Thesis (M.A.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2014.

Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice announces, "Métis students who attended the [Ile-a-la-Crosse Residential] school" will not be part of the Indian residential school compensation agreement.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

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

Examines a flogging incident which was used to discredit government Indian schools in the 1930's.

Projected deficit $1 million due to expenses incurred defending residential school lawsuits.

Comments on the way of life of the Cree Nations before and after encountering European settlers. English and American Studies Thesis (B.A.)--Univerzity Palackého, 2013.

Concerned residential school survivors speak out against the implementation of the $2 billion residential school agreement, arguing that the churches and state hiding from accountability is both painful and offensive.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.15.

Discusses the implications when a law suit involves not only the entity which is directly responsible for abuse, but the affiliated national church organizations as well.

Discusses how the forced introduction of European culture and values to Aboriginal societies began a cycle of social, physical, and spiritual destruction in Native communities.

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