Residential Schools

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Closing the Schools From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Colonialism and Coercive Assimilation/Cultural Genocide: Residential Schools as the Pedagogy of Nineteenth-Century Oppression From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the evolution of the institutional framework of the Canadian state, particularly education, together with the press and the church in shaping bourgeois cultural norms. In …	Bryan D. Palmer	10	2024	$1.00 Add
From Commission Activities From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary View James Lorimer and Company	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	$1.50 Add
From Conflict Arising From Contact From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Epilogue From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	The fall of residential schools. The aftermath and how it shaped the education of Native children in the times to come.	Celia Haig-Brown	25	1988	$0.50 Add
From Epilogue From: Seven Fallen Feathers View House of Anansi Press	In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga discusses the continuing efforts of Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler to find missing Indigenous young people and protect their rights. Please Note: A …	Tanya Talaga	15	2017	$1.80 Add
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future James Lorimer and Company	This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these …	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	544	2015	View
From NEW! Florence Barnaby, Fort Good Hope From: Book of Hope View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter presents the testimony of Florence Barnaby, a resident of Fort Good Hope, NWT, who lived from 1942 to 2024. She describes her lymphoma diagnosis, treatment in Edmonton, and the …	Agnes R. Pascal	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From For Further Reading From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	A list of books, films, websites, and reference material on the subject of residential schools.	Melanie Florence	1	2016	$0.10 Add
From Foreword From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	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
From From Home to School At Home; The Transition From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	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
From From Home to School From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	In Chapter Two a history is given of the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families into Kamloops Indian Residential School.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	31	2022	$3.10 Add
From From the Potlatch to Residential Schools From: Canada in the World View Fernwood Publishing	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
From Glossary From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	A list of key terms and definitions from the text.	Melanie Florence	2	2016	$0.20 Add
From Going Home From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	Based on the study of survivors, the author talks about the alcoholism and the suicide statistics, the suffering and pain of many who attended the school and conversely to the strength of those …	Celia Haig-Brown	21	1988	$0.42 Add
From Going Home From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	Chapter Five provides an account of students’ return to their own communities at home and the psychological imprints their time at Kamloops Indian Residential School made.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	16	2022	$1.60 Add