Research—Analytics and Interpretations

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the future – Summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities in Canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a […]

11Jul

Excerpt from A Healing Journey by Denise Lajimodiere

Denise Lajimodiere finally obtains her father’s file from the Chemawa Indian School near Salem, Oregon. Through this journey she and her father come to learn more about the history and the impacts of boarding school on Native Americans. Lajimodiere understands how trauma can be passed through generations, and her father, after viewing the documentary In the […]

02Jul

Looking at discipline, looking at labour: photographic representations of Indian boarding schools

Native American children were subjected to a rigidly enforced regime of acculturation in a federally funded system of Indian boarding schools. This paper explores the peculiar iconography of photographs of these Indian schools, hundreds of which can now be found in Internet archives. The advent of searchable photograph archives on the Internet makes possible new […]

02Jul

Resistance on the Great Plains: The Bismarck Indian School 1916-1921

This thesis is a story of resistance, resistance by Native students, and their parents, to an institution that was founded in an attempt to eradicate Native culture and Americanize Native people, specifically the children. The Bismarck Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools erected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to assimilate Native […]

28Jun

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

Boarding School Seasons offers a glimpse into the Haskell Institute in and the Flandreau School. The book is filled with letters from parents, children, and school officials discussing their experiences and perspectives. Children suffered from homesickness, and parents worried about the education and resources available to their children. In the midst of disease, and conflict […]

28Jun

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research And Indigenous Peoples

From a colonial perspective, the term ‘research’ has European colonial undertones, which has led to painful memories within Indigenous communities. This book illustrates through the use of case studies and examples how decolonized research methods can help reclaim control over traditional knowledge and ways of being. Book Available For Purchase Here Source: Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. […]