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Don't You Hear the Red Man Calling?

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Samuel Hume Blake]

Includes correspondence and quotes from a range of public and private individuals including Hume, Frank Pedley, John Hines, church officials, a Report of Special Indian Committee (1908) on policies, the state of health, death, and education in industrial and residential schools.

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The Early Efforts of the Oblate Missionaries in Western Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gaston Carrière
Prairie Forum, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 1-25
Comments on the importance of missionary work of the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate after 1845 in Western Canada. Oblates were seen as peace makers and educators who contributed to the development of the West.
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The Early History of Emmanuel College

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jean E. Murray
Saskatchewan History, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn, 1956, pp. 81-101
Describes the College and its role in the education of First Nations and Métis with the intention that they would minister to other First Nations and Métis within the Diocese of Saskatchewan. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
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The Early Missions of the Swan River District, 1821-1869

Articles » General
Author/Creator
J. F. Klaus
Saskatchewan History, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1964, pp. 60-76
Describes the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Red River Settlement in the early 1820s and then their expansion into the North-West Territories in the 1840s and 50s. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 60.
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The Economic Education of Samson Occom

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reginald Dyck
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 3-25
Looks at Occom's experiences with both Native and Christian beliefs and practices. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 3.
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Les Écrits de Pierre Potier

Alternate Title
Collection Amérique Française ; No 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Toupin
Describes New France in the 18th Century, including Pierre-Philippe Potier correspondence, library catalogues and registers of births.
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Educating "Indians": Practices of Becoming Canadian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Ormiston
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2002, pp. 1-22
Argues that education has been used as a tool for assimilation and that reflection on its power and control is necessary in resisting cultural homogenization.
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Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Jarich Oosten
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada, 2009, pp. 7-34
Chronicles the evolution of Inuit education policy in Canada's North. Scroll down to page 21 for English version.
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Education for Elimination in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i: Settler Colonialism and the Native Hawaiian Chiefs' Children's Boarding School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Kaomea
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2014, pp. 123-144
Connects the decline in ali'i births to the residential Hawaiian missionary run Chiefs' Children's School where colonial Puritan policies eventually put an end to future generations of Hawaiian rulers.
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Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Article suggests that the goals of the Ursuline nuns in Québéc—conversion and assimilation of Indigenous girls in New France—is complicated by various factors including correspondence from the French crown, the convent’s relationship with Jesuit orders, and Indigenous resistance to assimilation.
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Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, Spring, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Looks at the nuns' additive and combinative approach to trying to "Frenchify" Indigenous girls, and how it fell out of favour when the government decided that Indigenous people would have to be completely assimilated.
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Education -- Other -- Schools for Indians -- Yukon

Archival » Archival Items
Folder containing correspondence to and from Reverend H.C. Montgomery regarding subsidization of denominational schools and discrimination, education of children in Yukon, missionary work. Comments on these letters.
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Educational Policy of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Articles » General
Author/Creator
M.P. Toombs
Saskatchewan History, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter, 1951, pp. 1-10
Describes steps taken by the HBC and its agents to provide a formal education to the children of the Red River Settlement and the communities surrounding it. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.
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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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An Epistle to the Christian Indians, Giving Them a Short Account, of What the English Desire Them to Know and To Do, in Order to Their Happiness ...

Alternate Title
Wussukwhonk en Christianeue asuh peantamwae Indianog, Waheauwaheonaount Teanteagquaslinish, Englishmansog Kodtantamwog Indianog Wahteaunate kah ussenate, Fa Michemohtae Wunniyenonganit
E-Books
Author/Creator
Cotton Mather
Edward Bromfield
Text in Massachuset and English on facing pages, numbered in duplicate.
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The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - A Group of Piegan Indians with Missionary

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles Horetzky

Black and white photograph of a group of Piegan Indigenous peoples with a Caucasian missionary. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.

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The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - "Group of Blackfeet with Missionaries"

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Boorne & May
Photograph of a group of Blackfeet with missionaries on the Blackfoot Reserve in Southern Alberta. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Peigan Reserve - First Missionary House

Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Photograph of Peigan Reserve in wintertime featuring the first missionary house set up by Oblate Order. Livestock in background. Five indigenous persons in foreground. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
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