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Boarding School Abuses, Human Rights, and Reparations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 89-102
Discussion on the injustices suffered by Aboriginal children in schools, and the compensation offered to address those human rights violations.
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Counting Carlisle's Casualties: Defining Student Death at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Vitale
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, Fall, 2020, pp. [383]-414
Using official records from the first and largest off-reservation Indian boarding school in his case study, the author challenges the objectivity of morality rates. Factors such as definition of a student or alumni and including ill students that were discharged before their deaths can change the numbers drastically.
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Residential Schools

Alternate Title
4 Seasons of Reconciliation: Module Four
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Indigenous Continuing Education Centre, First Nations University of Canada]

Brief overview of the establishment of the school system, impact of students' experiences of physical and psychological abuse, and the subsequent intergenerational trauma.

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Stringing Rosaries: A Qualitative Study of Sixteen Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise K. Lajimodiere
Journal of Multiculturalism in Education, vol. 8, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-29
Responses of participants who had attended institutions between 1921 and 1986 are divided into five themes: loss of identity, loss of self-esteem, loneliness, abandonment, and feelings of discomfort when they returned to their communities.
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