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John Terry Ward – Roeper Review, 2024
This article looks at how colonialism has contributed to the racialized history of Indigenous people by unethical diagnostic implementations of categories and classifications, while overlooking exceptionalities when assessing Indigenous people. By understanding how settler-colonial assessments and/or diagnostic tests have been developed and…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Indigenous Populations, Land Settlement, United States History
Carr-Stewart, Sheila, Ed. – University of British Columbia Press, 2019
In 1867, Canada's federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Educational History
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Loewen, Patrick – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
The impact of Residential Schools on Indigenous People has left a long-lasting crippling effect on the subsequent generations of Indigenous youth. The resultant intergenerational loss of identity and self-value has cost the Indigenous People and their communities immensely. Aboriginal People based their education system on the real world around…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Place Based Education, Land Use, Self Concept
Capitaine, Brieg, Ed.; Vanthuyne, Karine, Ed. – University of British Columbia Press, 2017
"Power through Testimony" documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Knowledge, Residential Schools
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Hudson, Audrey – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In this paper, I discuss one photograph from a youth who participated in a 12-week arts based educational program I facilitated for Indigenous Young Adults at the Native Youth Drop-In centre in Toronto, Canada. By being able to communicate through their artwork, the youth shifted away from thinking of themselves as victims, and exuded a sense of…
Descriptors: Photography, Victims, Art Education, Foreign Countries
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Frieze, Stephanie – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2014
There is a correlation between the Levels of student achievement in formal Western schools and the levels of involvement that their parents have in this education. Many First Nations students have low levels of achievement, which can be attributed to a lack of parental involvement. The negative perception of school left behind from residential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation, Indigenous Populations