Residential Schools
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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  The HistoryFrom: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary Collection: Residential Schools in Canada |
Details the history of the residential school system. Puts the history in context of imperialism, colonization, and assimilation. Describes the experience children would have had at the schools. | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 140 | 2015 | $0.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential SchoolsFrom: Decolonizing Sport |
This chapter examines the presence of sports in Canadian residential schools and the use of sports as a tool for forced assimilation. | Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 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  Chapter 4: Hurting from the BeforeFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga discusses ongoing efforts and failures of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to provide educational resources for Indigenous communities. This … | Tanya Talaga | 32 | 2017 | $3.84 Add |
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From  Life at Residential School |
This chapter describes the experiences of students at residential schools. It illustrates this with photographs and illustrations of artifacts and documents as well as art created by former … | Melanie Florence | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Reconciliation So Far |
Chapter 5 explores how the idea of reconciliation has not been universally accepted. Providing a brief history of the terms use in relation to Indigenous Canadians, through the Royal Commission … | David Milward | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  School LifeThe School Day; Extracurricular Activities; Discipline; Family Visits and Summer Holidays From: Resistance and Renewal |
The author takes the reader through the residential school life: what a typical day looked like for the children, the discrimination they faced, the regimented learning of religion, subpar food … | Celia Haig-Brown | 50 | 1988 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The Hard Luck Shuswap Kid1920-1932 |
The second chapter of George Manuel’s biography outlines his early childhood up to age 12, an only child to his mother, and his father, who died when he was a baby. He was eventually raised … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From The LegacyFrom: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary Collection: Residential Schools in Canada |
Details the legacy of the residential school system in the lives of the Indigenous people of Canada includes the calls to action for each repercussion of the residential school system. | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 56 | 2015 | $0.00 Add |
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From Chapter 5: The Hollowness of Not KnowingFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers Collection: Indigenous in Canada: Firsthand Accounts |
In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga begins by providing an account of a meeting with Maryanne Panacheese on the Mishkeegogamang First Nation. The chapter goes on to discuss … | Tanya Talaga | 24 | 2017 | $2.88 Add |
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From Closing the Schools |
This chapter describes the events and shift in political climate that eventually led to the closure of residential schools in the latter half of the twentieth century. It illustrates this with … | Melanie Florence | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 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 The ResistanceFrom: Resistance and Renewal |
People rarely comply fully and easily to the introduction of oppression. Native children also produced counter-cultures in their resistance to the oppressive system which was Kamloops Indian … | Celia Haig-Brown | 27 | 1988 | $0.54 Add |
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From NEW! The Status Quo Is Not Reconciliation |
Chapter 6 explores how reconciliation is working to improve the lives of Indigenous Canadians. The chapter discusses the founding of both the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in 1998 and the … | David Milward | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From Calls to ActionFrom: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary |
A summary of the calls to action presented in relation to the legacy of the residential school system and reconciliation with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 19 | 2015 | $0.00 Add |
