Government Control

Argues that equitable financial resources are required to support First Nations students in band-managed schools.

Contends that First Nations peoples are willing to accept responsibility for education by implementing a First Nations Education Act as a tool to address disparities.

Explains why the First Nations University (FNUC) must be made independent.

A photo of the girl's dormitory 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.

Reports that staff at residential schools are now government employees and are happy with the change. Duration: 3:32.

Argues that chiefs should be leaders and not administrators, further arguing that by governments turning things over for bands to deal with, chiefs become like Indian agents.

Discusses the successes and failures by the provincial government on their attempts to modernize schools, and promote racial tolerance and cross-cultural understanding.

This issue focuses on settling the Alaskan Native land claims issue with the United States government.

Historical note:

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was signed into law in 1971, giving Natives rights to about one tenth of Alaska's land and nearly $1 billion and creating Native village and regional corporations.

This study is the result of a questionnaire given to 8th and 12th grade Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students living in Montana who were from reserves or lived close to a reserve. It focused on the occupational, financial and educational goals. The questionnaire also asked about situations in which respondents would be willing to associate with members of the opposite race.

File contains 6 negatives showing students from the Prince Albert Student Residence preparing to return to their homes across northern Saskatchewan for the holiday season. Scanned image shows a portrait of six children in winter clothing. (bad quality photo)

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1988.

The picture shows some Aboriginal men sitting at school desks in the foreground, with a crowded group of mainly Aboriginal people at the back of the room. The political dignitaries are not visible.

File contains 9 negatives showing a new dormitory at the All Saints Residential School/Prince Albert Indian Residence on June 15 of an unidentified year. Scanned image shows the frontal profile of the new building.

Scanned negative shows female students in uniform with an instructor on Visiting Day held on March 8, 1961 at the Prince Albert Indian School (presumably All Saints Residential School).

File contains 6 negatives from a banquet to honour student graduates at the Prince Albert Indian Residence on May 2, 1969. Scanned image shows five male and three female graduates posing for a portrait in formal attire.

File contains articles entitled " Indian Magna Carta Urged by Frank Calder" from the Native Voice, "Northern Ontario Indians Face Rising Racism", from the Toronto Star, "BNA Act Battle Looms", "Program to Place Courts, Law in Indian Community" from the Daily Herald, and a booklet from the National Indian Brotherhood. Also contains information relating to reserves, government control of Indigenous affairs, education, employment (esp. in mines), law and law enforcement, and the Indian Act.

Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in British Columbia, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.

Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in British Columbia, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.

Subtitle: The fourth of a series of ten radio talks on the natural resources of Canada, given by the Honourable T.A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources, over the national network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 10.30 E.S.T., February 9, 1937.

Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Canadian prairie provinces, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, colonization, missions, post-Confederation, education and economic development.

Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.

Federal government publication relating to Aboriginal life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, covering areas such as pre-contact, explorers and traders, Confederation to World War I, World War I to World War II, post-war years, missions and education.

Presenters discuss issues of intellectual or cognitive imperialism; summarize the Eurocentric knowledge systems, religions, and doctrines on which historical and current education are built and the means of enforcement by which those frameworks are held in place. Stress the need for Universities to implement Indigenous ways of knowing and thinking in all colleges and disciplines in order to affect change. Duration: 1:18:01

This article is based on Ellis's longer paper "The Missionary and the Indian in Central and Eastern Canada", briefly describing the author's experiences as an Anglican missionary in Ontario in the mid-1950s.

Booklet relating to the Interior Salish people of coastal BC, describing various aspects of Interior Salish culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.

Interview with Linda Smith, an Indigenous researcher, about alternative education of the Maori in New Zealand, impact of colonialism and current contexts.

A group of articles and video clips from the CBC Archives provides an overview of the changing patterns and issues in the communities in the Arctic from circa 1950 to 2002.

The author, chairman, Committee on Education, Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada, criticizes the Indian Act and describes his personal struggles with being born of Aboriginal parents but not fitting the Indian Act's requirements of what constitutes an Aboriginal person.

Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trent University, 2006.

Folder containing information about the plight of the Indian in northern Manitoba, residences, and jobs and job training of indigenous and Metis peoples.

Explains that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) administers schools until such time as the State is able to take over duties; states BIA has no statutory requirement to provide education.

Explains the objectives and reasons for establishing a Navajo College.

Questions the federal governments' push to regionalize sewer, water and education on unceded lands, thereby hindering Lubicon self-determination.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

Looks at the governments attempt to create a one-size-fits-all category of societal Canadian citizenship, and reveals the extent to which First Nations peoples and immigrants were expected to conform to Canadian values and standards.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2009.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

Children with adults (teachers?) pose for group photo on steps of the mission at Metlakatla, BC.

This article describes the author's experiences as an Anglican missionary in Ontario in the mid-1950s. Aspects of Aboriginal life covered include marriage, kinship, education, value system and religion.

File contains a single negative from Olive Diefenbaker's official opening of a library at the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on January 17, 1964. Scanned image shows Mrs. Diefenbaker sitting and talking with a variety of male and female students in uniform.

[Education?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2012.

File contains 2 negatives showing new construction at the Indian School in Prince Albert (presumably All Saints Residential School or the Prince Albert Indian Student Residence) on August 18, 1964. Scanned image shows a building (apparently a dormitory) under construction.

The new McKay school at La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Date unknown. Run by the Anglican Church of Canada.

Book review of: Nunavik by Ann Vick-Westgate.

Book review of: Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec by Ann Wick-Westgate.

Looks at relationship between education system with local districts, funding, state and federal policies, and standards and sovereignty, all external obstacles effecting language revitalization.

The old McKay School at La Ronge, Saskatchewan. On the back of the photo is written "First Residential School built at Lac la Ronge by the Venerable Archdeacon Mackay and the late James Brown a native Clergyman, who was the first Principal of the School. This School was burned in January 1920."

Comments on the debilitating aspects of colonialism and how Aboriginal people can combat racism effectively by working together to empower each other as a cultural group.