Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 89-102
Description
Discussion on the injustices suffered by Aboriginal children in schools, and the compensation offered to address those human rights violations.
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
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
Description
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.
Healing and Reconciliation Through Education
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre
Description
History of the Shingwauk residential school. Contains some primary material.
How Colonization Impacts Identity Through the Generations: A Closer Look at Historical Trauma and Education
Theses
Author/Creator
Michelle Garcia-Olp
Description
Education Thesis (PhD) -- University of Denver, 2018.
A Lethal Education: Institutionalized Negligence, Epidemiology, and Death in United States American Indian Boarding Schools, 1879-1934
Theses
Author/Creator
Preston Scott McBride
Description
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of California Los Angeles, 2020.
A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland
Alternate Title
Social and Economic Studies ; no. 86
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrea Procter
Nature's Laws
Oral History » Oral Histories
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wayne Roan
Earle Waugh
Toby Zorthian
Description
A collection containing reformatted recordings by Chief Wayne Roan, Earle Waugh, and Toby Zorthian originally located on the Nature's Laws website. This collection examines Indigenous history, culture, and worldviews. Eighty-three video clips are included, varying in length from 10 seconds to 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
Original Website: Nature's Law - Homepage
Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Brieg Capitaine
Karine Vanthuyne
Eric Taylor Woods
Robyn Green
Janice Cindy Gaudet
Lawrence Martin ... et al.
Religion's Role in Native American Boarding Schools
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Christopher Stevenson
Ashley Dreff
Bradley Hauff
Farina King
Brenda J. Child
Christine Diindiisi McCleave
Description
A panel discussion about the role of religion in the Native American boarding schools in the United States.
Residential Schools
Alternate Title
4 Seasons of Reconciliation: Module Four
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Indigenous Continuing Education Centre, First Nations University of Canada]
Description
Brief overview of the establishment of the school system, impact of students' experiences of physical and psychological abuse, and the subsequent intergenerational trauma.
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
Description
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.
The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation
E-Books
Author/Creator
Carey Newman
Kirstie Hudson