Abuse

"This paper presents a chronological history of the criminal law convictions relating to Canada's Indian residential schools."

Focuses on personal narratives of former students of Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School. Duration: 41:38.

Looks at the disruption of intragroup processes that typically protect group members.

Profiles past boarding school policies world-wide, discusses children's experiences, evaluates schools' success, and discusses current practises and ideologies.

Looks at how Indigenous methodologies and experiential knowledge offer alternatives for resisting contemporary colonial realities and legacies of residential schools.

Author's account of his and a friend's time spent in residential schools and how therapeutic talks helped to start the healing journey.

Analyzes investigations into non-Aboriginal residential schools in British Columbia, Ontario, and Newfoundland, and the federal government's settlement with Japanese Canadians who were interred during World War II.

Includes reported cases, unresolved cases, Residential School statistics and list of schools in litigation arranged by province.

List of cases organized alphabetically by province.

Argues that looking back at success and failure of RCAP can be useful for the future of the TRC starting with two early phases; establishing terms of reference and appointment of personnel.

Integrated Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2010

Presents a study that looks at links between personal homelessness and intergenerational trauma through a series of interviews with Aboriginal men.

Discusses the best practices for addressing the adverse traumatic experiences from historical oppression.

Brief introduction to the articles in section of volume which discuss the experiences of residential school survivors, the challenges of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the politics of reconciliation. .

Introduction and letter from Indian Agent dated June 4th, 1895 to his superior regarding abuse taking place at the school. Recommends that a teacher should be brought before the Magistrate, fined, and dismissed.

Comments on perceived barriers for communicating with youth and the support elders can provide to young people.

Film about the contemporary Algonquians of Quebec and Ontario. Duration: 93:20 . Accompanying material: The Invisible Nation: Lesson Plan.

Guide to accompany film, The Invisible Nation". Target audience students aged 15-20. Contains start and preparatory activities, reflective sharing, comparing two Algonquin communities, observation checklist and suggested questions.

Describes the story, put to film, of two Saskatchewan women who bravely returned to the residential school where they had suffered abuse, to work and make a change to benefit other students. Article located by scrolling to page 24.

Short video about research on treaty rights and the abuse that occurred at residential schools.

Stories from residential school survivors and descendants of survivors. Duration: 44:59.

Discusses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's pledge to hear the painful stories from former residential school students and to help the students begin the healing process.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2013. Focuses on R. v. O'Connor criminal case, the Blackwater v. et al v. Plint et al civil case adjudication, and Hollow Water Community Holistic Circle Healing initiative.

Presents part I of interview with the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, regarding the direction towards reconciliation for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Duration: 19:46.

Presentation of Part II of an interview with the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, regarding the direction towards reconciliation for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Duration: 17:22.

Presents talk by the Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Includes series of videos from school survivors. Duration: 2:02:46.

Discusses the genocide of indigenous children and the film, Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide. Duration: 54:41.

Discusses structures in the system that allowed for acts of cruelty to be repeated daily to enforce the residential school's mandate.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.

Study of Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2012.

Survivors share their knowledge of resiliency with Aboriginal youth from remote First Nation communities by providing culturally appropriate resources and training tools.

Documentary looks at the healing journey of the survivors of Kuper Island residential school 20 years after its closure. Duration: 43:33.

Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2010.

Provides an overview of key events relating to residential schools, and discusses the issues determined by Canadian courts in four specific cases:Blackwater v Plint (No 1), Blackwater v Plint (No 2), and Mowatt and A(TWN) v Clarke.

Provides historical overview and timeline of residential schools and two foundations established to educate and create awareness in support of healing assistance for survivors. Contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some readers.

Argues that in order for psychologists to provide effective psychological treatment for Aboriginal people, they need to understand the profound impact the residential school trauma and its ongoing legacy has had on their people. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, Scroll to page 36.

Survivors and their legal counsel were trying to access 40,000 pages of documentation of abuse which would have helped to corroborate their testimonies during the Independent Assessment Process. Canadian Federal Government had denied that there was any evidence of abuse. Website includes court transcripts of Ann Wesley case, in which former nun was charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance.

Discusses the problems that arise when the rules governing private practice are applied to lawyers working in the public sector. As a case study uses the litigation over the government's non-disclosure, during settlement adjudication, of a report on investigations conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police into abuses committed at St. Anne's Residential School.

Guide suggested for Grade 9 students. Film, directed by Lori Lewis, deals with segregation of Aboriginal athletes and the abuse suffered in the residential school system Niigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners. Study Guide.

Highlights an interdisciplinary conference held at The King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, where students met with survivors of residential school abuse.

Discusses the necessity of an apology, by the government, for the trauma and abuse suffered by Aboriginal Canadians. Article located by scrolling to page 8.

Three survivors of residential schools, Margaret Tourville, Michael Cheena, and Murray Crow speak about their experiences at panel session from Linking Arms Together Symposium held York University June 28, 2013. Duration: 1:12:53.

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process postponed after concerns raised by representatives about the its structure, but still hoped to be in place by year-end.

Meeting told that residential schools stripped language, culture as well traditional methods of dispute resolution, so the alternative has become litigation.

Theology Thesis (D.Min.)--St. Stephen's College, 2015.

Article examines two theories relevant to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); the theory of recognition and justice.

Provides an overview of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and locates it in the global trend of TRCs, which are being used increasingly as a transitional justice tool.

Stephen Harper's speech, statements by opposition parties, and responses by leaders of Aboriginal organizations. Duration: 1:25:15.

Discovers some economic benefits from attending residential schools, but it is more than offset by the loss of traditional skills and cultural connections.