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Aboriginal Education and Anti-Racist Education: Building Alliances Across Cultural and Racial Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Verna St. Denis
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 30, no. 4, Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts, 2007, pp. 1068-1092
Examines how anti-racist education could provide a foundation to forge alliances between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in search of social justice in education.
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Admin of Ed facilities for Indian People

Images » Photographs
File contains 2 negatives of an unidentified Administrator of Aboriginal Education facilities, presumably in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, March 23, 1966. Scanned image shows two men and two women posing for a portrait (presumably one of whom is said administrator).
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All Saints Boarding School

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All Saints Boarding School in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Run by the Anglican Church All Saints was built in 1920-21 under Archdeacon McKay's supervision.
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All Saints Indian School Hunter Safety Program

Images » Photographs
File contains 4 negatives showing scenes from a Hunter Safety Program held for students at the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 13, 1966. Scanned image shows female students seated in a classroom with what appears to be a group of male students or instructors standing in the background.
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All Saints WA Tea

Images » Photographs
File contains 3 negatives from the All Saints (Residential School) Women's Auxillary Tea held on June 7, 1963 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Scanned negative shows women from the Auxillary organization.
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Battleford Industrial School

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
D. Cadzow
A photograph of the students and staff of the Battleford Industrial School taken by D. Cadzow, undated.
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Bibliography - Grad Theses on Indians

Documents & Presentations
File contains a photocopy of a bibliography of Canadian theses pertaining to Indians from 1882 to 1979. It is an extensive list compiled by a University of Manitoba student. He found that few theses existed prior to 1920 (only 2), but the number steadily increases from then until 1979.
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"But What Is The Object of Educating These Children, If It Costs Their Lives to Educate Them?": Federal Indian Education Policy in Western Canada in The Late 1800s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard A. Enns
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 101-123, 245
Discusses the Conservative and Liberal views of politicians regarding the federal Indian education policy, the administration of industrial schools, and the terrible conditions in the schools causing high mortality rates.
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Canada's Actions Speaks Louder than Words

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Erin Culhane
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 5, September 2001, p. 5

Reports on compensation legislation for child abuse cases and how inequitable settlements have been inadequate.

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Canned and Labelled: Case Closed

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 12, April 2001, p. 3

Comments on government and church reaction to abuse allegations at Aboriginal residential schools in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native Education: Results From the 1990-91 and 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Surveys

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Michael Pavel
Thomas R. Curtin
Summer D. Whitener
Equity & Excellence in Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Special Issue, 1998, pp. 48-54
Highlights chapters from the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education report on school districts, schools, principals, teachers and students.
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Churches, Government Still Squabbling Over School Issue

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Taillon
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 11, March 2002, p. 14

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

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"Clippings, nd, 1909"

Documents & Presentations
This file contains a newspaper clipping about the life of Lucy M. Baker, praising her work with the Indians who "worshipped" her for the work she did for the Makoce Waste Sioux after the 1885 rebellion. Also scanned is a mission report of the two reserves she worked at, Mistawasis (Cree) and Makoce Waste (Sioux).
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Coast Salish - Booklet. - 1966.

Archival » Archival Items
Booklet relating to the coast Salish people of coastal British Columbia, describing various aspects of Coast Salish culture such as daily subsistence, religion, shamanism, family life and legends.
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A Community Development Project Among the Churchill Band at Churchill, Manitoba / September 1959 - March 1960 - Walter M. Hlady. - Report. - December 1960.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Walter M. Hlady
Report on the feasibility of applying community development principles to the problems of the Churchill Band of Chipewyan Indians located in the Churchill, MB area. Aspects needing improvement according to the report are employment placement, band government, and animal hide tanning.
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Court Affirms Education Rights

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Taillon
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 6, October 2001, p. 11

Examines the decision by the Court of Appeal regarding the violation of Cree rights by the Canadian and Quebec governments.

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Cree Boys in Front of Old Anglican Mission School at La Ronge

Images » Photographs
A photo of several Cree boys in front of the old Anglican Mission school at La Ronge in August 1919. This school was destroyed by fire in March 1920 and a new one built. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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Cultural Deprivation as an Educational Ideology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Murray Wax
Rosalie Wax
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 3, no. 2, January 1964, pp. [15-18]
Discusses the prevailing attitude within the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the time that Indian children lead culturally deprived existences.
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Culture, Chaos & Complexity - Catalysts for Change in Indigenous Education

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ray Barnhardt
Anagayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 59-64
Looks at Indigenous education in Alaska, and discusses the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI), which focuses on the connection between Indigenous Knowledge systems and formal education systems.
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Education - Other- Indigenous schools

Archival » Archival Items
Folder containing information on the integration of indigenous schools, a copy of St. Paul's School's yearbook, Correspondence relating to the Indian Act, indigenous schools, the opening of Pointe-Bleue School, the construction of new school on the Moose Woods Reserve at Dundurn and a 200 bed residential school for the Squamish Band. Also Correspondence regarding the Assumption Indian Residential School, and quality of education.
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Educational Practices in Two Nineteenth Century American Indian Mission Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen K. McKellips
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 32, no. 1, October 1992, pp. [12-20]
Analysis of the Cheyenne Transporter's (1880-86) content reveals belief that discipline and certain subjects civilize, Americanize, and bring people into the mainstream. Appreciation of, or consideration for, the culture of Cheyenne and Arapaho is absent.
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The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - "Knitting and Spinning at St. Albert School"

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Birth of the West: History Teaching Series
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers

Black and white photograph of a class of young Indigenous girls learning to knit and spin at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

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The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - "Learning Saddlery and Bootmaking, St. Albert School, 1898"

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
[Birth of the West: History Teaching Pictures]
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers

Black and white photograph of a class of Indigenous youths learning saddlery and bootmaking at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

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The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - Staff and Students of Dunbow School

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs

Black and white photograph of the staff and students of Dunbow School, one of the first boarding schools for indigenous children. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

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Federal Boarding Schools and the Indian Child: 1920-1960

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Connell Szasz
South Dakota History, vol. 7, no. 4, 1977, pp. [371]-384
Historical overview of the running of and changes to American Indigenous boarding schools over a forty year period.
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Federal Policy Affecting the Education of Indians in California, 1849-1934

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irving G. Hendrick
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1976, pp. 163-185
Reviews the United States educational policy that aimed to prepare Native Americans for "citizenship and civilization" initially provided support for boarding and separate day schools and later for public school education.
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Findings and Recommendations Prepared by the Bureau of Indian Education Study Group Submitted to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Education

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bureau of Indian Education
Looks at some of the problems in the Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded school systems including: recruitment of effective teachers to work in remote locations, compliance with academic standards, introducing research-based reforms, and working with less resources and funding.
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Findings Shaky, Says Witness

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 1, May 2001, p. 7

Examines John Siebert's conclusions minimizing residential school claims of loss of culture, society and how this has increased the animosity.

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