Elizabeth Furniss
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Victims of BenevolenceThe Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School |
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 |
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From PrefaceFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From A "Sacred Duty"Christianity, Civilization, and Indian Education From: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From The Shuswap Response to ColonialismFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From The Early Years of the Mission SchoolEducation and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From A Death and an InquestFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From The Government InvestigationFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From Runaways and a SuicideFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
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From History in the PresentFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
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 |
