Elizabeth Furniss

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Victims of Benevolence The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School Arsenal Pulp Press	An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal …	Elizabeth Furniss	142	1992	View
From Preface From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	In most books, historical records have been written by non-Natives and thus reflect a non-Native cultural orientation. As a result, Native perspectives are often excluded from documentary sources …	Elizabeth Furniss	16	1992	$0.16 Add
From A "Sacred Duty" Christianity, Civilization, and Indian Education From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	Roman Catholic missionaries and the Canadian government shared a vision: to see Native people, through residential schooling, abandon their cultural heritage and their nomadic hunting and fishing …	Elizabeth Furniss	40	1992	$1.60 Add
From The Shuswap Response to Colonialism From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	Despite strong opposition, the Shuswap people were forced to adopt the colonial way of living. They were pushed out of their home and discouraged to practice sacred rituals. Ultimately, in 1891, …	Elizabeth Furniss	24	1992	$0.48 Add
From The Early Years of the Mission School Education and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	Native children learned the skills they needed to survive, and the beliefs, values, and codes of behaviour appropriate to their society, by a trial-and error process of observing and imitating …	Elizabeth Furniss	28	1992	$0.56 Add
From A Death and an Inquest From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter highlights the death of Duncan Sticks, one of the boys who`d run away from the residential school. An inquisition lead to witness tesimonies throwing more light on the mistreatment …	Elizabeth Furniss	31	1992	$0.93 Add
From The Government Investigation From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	The Indian Superintendent of B.C., A.W. Vowell was tasked to conduct the investigation into the death of Duncan Sticks. Vowell discredited the student testimonies, putting the blame on them …	Elizabeth Furniss	21	1992	$0.42 Add
From Runaways and a Suicide From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	Children continued to run away from the Mission through the first decade of the 1900s. In the summer of 1920 nine boys at the Mission grouped together and ate some poisonous water hemlock. One …	Elizabeth Furniss	27	1992	$0.54 Add
From History in the Present From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	In the decades after the establishment of the Mission school Native parents repeatedly protested the care being provided to their children at the school. Yet government officials and missionaries …	Elizabeth Furniss	31	1992	$0.93 Add