Several survivors from Canadian residential schools share their experiences of abuse, and how this has affected their children and grandchildren. One of the survivors ended up sending her children to residential school. Video clips are also shown of children in at school. Another survivor describes residential schools as “a blot on the Canadian landscape”for three […]
Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools, as late as 1950, was to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were not allowed to be Indians – to speak their language or express their culture or native identity in […]
Hunter Genia is a well respected member of the Saginaw Chippewa Wellness community and works at the tribe’s Behavioral Health department. He shares very personal stories of he and his relatives’ experiencing direct impacts from being swept into the boarding school systems, and generational aftershocks of those experiences. Watch Video Here Source: Mount Pleasant Industrial […]
In this feature film, the profound impact of the Canadian government’s residential school system is conveyed through the eyes of two children who were forced to face hardships beyond their years. As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools, where they suffered years of physical, sexual […]
This book makes a compelling plea for non-Aboriginal Canadians to undergo a process of reconciliation, and decolonization in order to fully participate in a joint healing process with Aboriginal Canadians. The text argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must abandon the myth of their ancestors as peacemakers and recognized the destruction felt by Aboriginal communities throughout history. […]
Standing Bear, the son of a Lakota chief, has led an interesting life. As a student he was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising on the Pine Ridge Reservation firsthand, toured Europe in a Wild West Show, and was heavily involved in the Indian rights movement. Book Available […]
Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellers spent her childhood in a boarding school run by the church. Like other Native American boarding schools, the goal was to assimilate students into mainstream society by forcing students to abandon their heritage and language and adopting Christianity and “civilized” ways of living. The trauma experienced at school continued to haunt […]
The first part in the documentary asks U. of Minnesota students what they know about Native Americans. An introduction to significant Dakota words is presented along with the history of the Ojibwe and Dakota before and during European colonization. It briefly discusses treaties between the tribes and the US government, contemporary federal Indian policy, how […]
This video addresses how restorative justice is being implemented within Native communities within Minnesota, and how non-Natives are obligated to confront the state’s painful history with local tribes across the state. Examples of this include renouncing the “Doctrine of Discovery” and Manifest Destiny-colonial ideals that believed Europeans have a claim to the United States. It […]
Dickinson College has digitized materials available for educators to use. These teaching kits are available for use in schools, libraries, and other educational institutions to teach students about the Carlisle Indian School. The resources includes reproduced photographs, newspapers, and booklets dating from the years the school was in operation (1879-1918). Read Article Here Read PDF […]
