“In those days the Indian schools were like jails and run along military lines, with roll calls four times a...
At its sixth session, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recommended that an expert undertake a comparative study...
This article discusses how, from the late 1800s through the early 1970s, the American government removed American Indian children from...
Many former students identify the most painful legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as the loss of First Nations culture...
This article considers, from the experience of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement, the limitations of the current formal justice system...
The recent flood of civil litigation suits filed against the federal government and four major Christian churches by former students...
For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate...
A document written from first person accounts by students detailing the lives of those who attended the Hampton Normal and...
The Thomas Indian School was founded by Presbyterian missionaries on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in the state of New York....
Denise Lajimodiere finally obtains her father’s file from the Chemawa Indian School near Salem, Oregon. Through this journey she and...
Unlike many Native American tribes the Pueblo had a vastly different experience. While many parents were usually defenseless against government-run...
The driving force behind Carlisle Indian School and the education of Native Americans in boarding schools was Richard Henry Pratt....