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Barnes, Rosemary, and Nina Josefowitz. “Indian Residential Schools in Canada: Persistent Impacts on Aboriginal Students’ Psychological Development and Functioning.” Canadian Psychology 60.2 (2019): 65–76. EBSCOhost. Web. 9 November 2020.
Barnes, Rosemary, Nina Josefowitz and Esther Cole. "Residential Schools: Impact on Aboriginal Students' Academic and Cognitive Development." Canadian Journal of School Psychology 21.1/2 (2006): 18-32. Sage Journals Online. Web. 28 June 2013.
Boffa, Adriana. "The Question of Residential Schools in Canada: Preserve, Demolish, or Repurpose?" Canadian Social Studies 49.1 (2017): 11-14 . ERIC. Web. 15 July 2021.
Bombay, Amy, et al. “The Intergenerational Effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the Concept of Historical Trauma.” Transcultural Psychiatry 51.3 (2014): 320–338. EBSCOhost. Web. 9 November 2020
Carr, Geoffrey. "Atopoi of the Modern: Revisiting the Place of the Indian Residential School." English Studies In Canada 35.1 (2009): 109-135. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 June 2013.
De Leeuw, Sarah. "'If Anything is to be Done with the Indian, We Must Catch Him Very Young': Colonial Constructions of Aboriginal Children and the Geographies of Indian Residential Schooling In British Columbia, Canada." Children's Geographies 7.2 (2009)
De Leeuw, Sarah. "Intimate Colonialisms: The Material and Experienced Places of British Columbia's Residential Schools." Canadian Geographer 51.3 (2007): 339-359. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 June 2013.
Di Mascio, Anthony, and Leigh Hortop-Di Mascio. "Residential Schooling in the Arctic: A Historical Case Study and Perspective." Native Studies Review 20.2 (2011): 31-49. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 June 2013.
Feir, Donna L., and M. Christopher Auld. “Indian Residential Schools: Height and Body Mass Post‐1930.” Canadian Journal of Economics 54.1 (2021):126–163. Web. September 28, 2021.
Field, John F. "The Indian Act: An Historical Perspective." Canadian Parliamentary Review 25:2 (2002): 23-27. Canadian Business & Current Affairs. Web. 8 July 2013.
Griffith, Jane. “Of Linguicide and Resistance: Children and English Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Indian Boarding Schools in Canada.” Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education 53.6 (2017): 763–782. EBSCOhost. Web.
Marker, Michael. "Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival." Paedagogica Historica 45.6 (2009): 757-772. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 June 2013.
McCracken, Krista. “Archival Photographs in Perspective: Indian Residential School Images of Health.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 30.2 (2017):163–182. EBSCOhost. Web. 9 November 2020.
McQuaid, Robyn Jane, et al. “Suicide Ideation and Attempts among First Nations Peoples Living On-Reserve in Canada: The Intergenerational and Cumulative Effects of Indian Residential Schools.” The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 62.6 (2017):422-p430. Web.
Mosby, Ian, and Tracey Galloway. “‘The Abiding Condition Was Hunger’: Assessing the Long-Term Biological and Health Effects of Malnutrition and Hunger in Canada’s Residential Schools.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 30.2 (2017): 147–162. EBSCOhost.
Mosby, Ian. "Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952." Histoire sociale/Social history 46.91 (2013): 145-172. Project Muse. Web. 17 July 2013.
Rand, Julia. "Residential Schools: Creating and Continuing Institutionalization Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada." First Peoples Child & Family Review 6.1 (2011): 56-65. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 26 June 2013.
Sareen Jitender, et al. "Trauma and Suicide Behaviour Histories Among a Canadian Indigenous Population: An Empirical Exploration of the Potential Role of Canada's Residential School System." Social Science & Medicine 74.10 (2012): 1560-1569. ScienceDirect
Schroeder, Steven. "Reflections on the Indian Residential Schools and Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada". Contemporary Church History Quarterly 19.3 (2013). Web. 27 September 2021.
Smith, Dawn, Colleen Varcoe, and Nancy Edwards. "Turning Around The Intergenerational Impact Of Residential Schools On Aboriginal People: Implications For Health Policy And Practice." Canadian Journal Of Nursing Research 37.4 (2005): 38-60. Web. 26 June
Sproule-Jones, Megan. "Crusading for the Forgotten: Dr. Peter Bryce, Public Health, and Prairie Native Residential Schools." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 13.2 (1996):199-224. Web. 26 June 2013.
Woods, Eric. "A Cultural Approach to a Canadian Tragedy: The Indian Residential Schools as a Sacred Enterprise." International Journal Of Politics, Culture & Society 26.2 (2013): 173-187. SpringerLink. Web. 26 June 2013

Residential Schools: Readings

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Selected Readings - Coqualeetza Residential School and St. Mary's Indian Residential School