Residential Schools
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Resources for Residential School Survivors
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- Aboriginal Healing Foundation"Our mission is to provide resources which will promote reconciliation and encourage and support Aboriginal people and their communities in building and reinforcing sustainable healing processes that address the legacy of physical, sexual, mental, cultural, and spiritual abuses in the residential school system, including intergenerational impacts."
- Indian Residential School Survivor Society (IRSSS)"IRSSS provides essential services to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with Intergenerational traumas...across B.C. and Canada."
Quick Links
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- Indigenous Studies PortalScholarly articles search: "Residential Schools"
- Canadian Business and Current AffairsScholarly articles search: "Residential Schools"
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- #ReadTheTRCReportCanadians read sections of the TRC Report on YouTube
- Final Report Executive summary"Honoring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission."
- TRC Final ReportFull text in 10 separate linked PDF files.
Featured eBooks
A National Crime by Call Number: eBook; print copy at E 96.5 M56 1999ISBN: 9780887556463Publication Date: 1999-05-31"A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children."
Shingwauk's Vision by Call Number: eBook; print copy at E 96.5 M55 1996ISBN: 9780802078582Publication Date: 1996-05-24"In this first comprehensive history of these institutions, J.R. Miller explores the motives of all three agents in the story. He looks at the separate experiences and agendas of the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them."
Unsettling the Settler Within by Call Number: eBook; print copy at E 96.5 R44 2010ISBN: 9780774817783Publication Date: 2011-04-15"Paulette Regan, a former residential-schools-claims manager, argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience."
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