Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals in microform
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
Serials in Microform
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals in microform
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
Anthropologica
Author: Serials & Newspapers in Microform
Author: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Author: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of CanadaPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459410696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Countering Colonization
Author: Carol DevensPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520328663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Trade Ornament Usage Among the Native Peoples of Canada
Author: Karlis KarklinsPublisher: Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Study describes in chronological order how the various trade ornaments (material culture) were used from initial contact to circa 1900 by representative tribes of the seven major native groups of Canada. Based on extensive search of published and manuscript sources, supplemented by examination of historical paintings, photographs and ethnographical specimens.
Bringing Them Home
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The University as an Institution Today
Author: Alfonso BorreroPublisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889366853
Category : Community and college
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Describes the philosophy, mission, function, objectives, structures and service to culture and professions of the university as an institution.
Kill the Indian, Save the Man
Author: Ward ChurchillPublisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 9780872864399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools.