Residential Schools
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind ManFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga recalls how she first became invested in the stories of the seven missing and murdered indigenous students while working as a political reporter covering indigenous … | Tanya Talaga | 38 | 2017 | $4.56 Add |
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From  NEW! Different Views of Crime |
Chapter 2 examines the historical, political, and societal factors that drive Indigenous over-incarceration. It focuses on the impacts of colonialism and more specifically on residential schools … | David Milward | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  ForewordFrom: Resistance and Renewal |
Randy Fred offers a first-hand account of his years at the residential school. Randy’s reflections of his years at the school are objective, yet heart-wrenching and brings focus to the … | Randy Fred | 20 | 1988 | $0.40 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary |
An overview of what Residential Schools were and provides the history of reconciliation in Canada. Defines reconciliation as a relationship. | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 26 | 2015 | $0.00 Add |
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From  Life Before the Schools |
This chapter provides an overview of the lives and cultures of indigenous people in Canada prior to the residential schools. It illustrates this with paintings, artifacts, photographs, and … | Melanie Florence | 30 | 2016 | $3.00 Add |
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From Chapter 2: Why Chanie RanFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers Collection: Residential Schools in Canada |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga begins by describing a meeting with Alvin Fiddler, the Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. She goes on to provide a history of the residential school system … | Tanya Talaga | 47 | 2017 | $5.64 Add |
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From Commission ActivitiesFrom: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary |
Describes the activities that the commission undertook including coast to coast meetings, statement gathering from residential school survivors, national events, education and outreach, and the … | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 15 | 2015 | $0.00 Add |
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From Conflict Arising From Contact |
This chapter discusses the policies that were enacted by the Canadian government and the effect this had on Canada’s Indigenous People. It illustrates this with photographs and … | Melanie Florence | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From Setting the SceneThe Governments; Missionaries; The Secwepemc From: Resistance and Renewal |
The chapter highlights the role the Government and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate played in the life of Native peoples, especially the Secwepemc. | Celia Haig-Brown | 22 | 1988 | $0.44 Add |
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From NEW! The Seeds of Intergenerational Trauma |
Chapter 3 focuses on the root causes of intergenerational trauma in many Indigenous communities. The chapter explores the risk factors that originated in the abuses suffered by those who directly … | David Milward | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 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 Chapter 3: When the Wolf ComesFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Tanya Talaga discusses the end of the residential school system in Canada and the continued failure of the Canadian government to provide educational resources for indigenous … | Tanya Talaga | 39 | 2017 | $4.68 Add |
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From From Home to SchoolAt Home; The Transition From: Resistance and Renewal |
This chapter narrates the disruption that the residential schools posed in the lives of the Natives. The author juxtapositions the life at school versus that life before school for the Native … | Celia Haig-Brown | 29 | 1988 | $0.58 Add |
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From  From the Potlatch to Residential SchoolsFrom: Canada in the World |
The War of 1885 – Métis Resistance – Assimilation, Extermination, Cultural Genocide – The Residential School System – Policing the Colonized – Colonialism and … | Tyler A. Shipley | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! Intergenerational Domestic Violence |
Chapter 4 explores the connection between intergenerational trauma and crime. This chapter details how the abuse and trauma of residential schools affected both the individuals who attended and … | David Milward | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From The Children are Taken |
This chapter discusses how thousands of children were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to residential schools. It illustrates this with photographs, illustrations, and documents as … | Melanie Florence | 6 | 2016 | $0.60 Add |
