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Peer reviewedDonaldson, Laura E. – American Indian Quarterly, 1998
Draws on Isabelle Knockwood's memoir about Mi'kmaw children's experiences in a Nova Scotia boarding school to examine the contradictory impacts of English literacy on American-Indian peoples and cultures. Discusses literacy as a weapon of colonial assimilation and, conversely, the appropriation of literacy within a Mi'kmaw system of knowledge…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
Knockwood, Isabelle; Thomas, Gillian – 1992
The Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was established by the Canadian government in 1929 to provide residential education to orphan, destitute, neglected, and other Mi'kmaw Indian children aged 7-16. Since many Indian parents were poor and unable to provide for their children, they felt the school was a chance for their…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
Chrisjohn, Roland D; Young, Sherri L.; Maraun, Michael – 1997
This book develops an alternative account of Canada's operation of Indian residential schools and provides recommendations for undoing what has been done. Derived from a report on residential schooling submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in October 1994, the book discusses the language and rhetoric surrounding residential…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indians, Boarding Schools
Peer reviewedBull, Linda R. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1991
Interviews with 10 Cree-speaking Canada Natives in central Alberta focus on their experiences in 2 missionary boarding schools, 1900-1940. Also included are background information on the history of Indian education in Canada and archival material on Roman Catholic and (Methodist) United Church boarding schools. Contains 59 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
Grant, Agnes – 1996
This book documents and comments on what is known about the Indian residential school era in Canada. The aftermath of this era has exacted a huge toll, both in the human suffering of First Nations and on Canadian society in general, but understanding the impact of residential schools can aid the healing process. Chapters are: (1) "Examining…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
Jack, Agness, Ed. – 2000
Thirty-two Canada Natives who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School agreed to share their stories in the form of this book. In this way, their families and communities could learn and understand what happened at the school, and all Canadians could know the truth about residential schools so that history is never repeated. Kamloops Indian…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Students
Fournier, Suzanne; Crey, Ernie – 1997
A deliberate policy to separate and forcibly assimilate Aboriginal First Nations children into the mainstream has pervaded every era of Aboriginal history in Canada. Each era saw a new reason to take Aboriginal children away from their homes, placing them in residential schools, foster care, or non-Aboriginal adoptive families. In the words of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
