LibGuides UFV: ENGL 105, Academic Writing (Jacqueline Taylor): Power and Privilege

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The National: Residential Schools
Native Canadians are demanding the federal government act on recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Among the many recommendations is one that would redress a terrible injustice: residential schools. Native Canadians want to heal the wounds inflicted by those schools, but they say that can't happen until the government apologizes for its involvement and accepts responsibility. Many Native children suffered abuse, sexual and physical, and neglect in these schools. All of them lost their past, culture and traditions when they were forced to attend these white-man schools. [From Website]

Xyólhmet ye Syéwiqwélh (Taking Care of our Children) Project

September 21st, 2023 announcement about the preliminary findings at St Mary’s Residential School, Coqualeetza Residential School, All Hallows School, and Coqualeetza Indian Hospital.

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Residential Schools	Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Canada
Indians of North America--Canada--Residential schools	Education--Canada--History
Discrimination in Education	Power (Social Sciences)

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Selected Titles

A National Crime : The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
Call Number: E-book
Residential Schools and Reconciliation : Canada Confronts Its History
Call Number: E-book

The Day of the Apology June 11th, 2008 [videorecording] = Jour de la présentation des excuses le 11 juin 2008 by Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
Call Number: E 96.5 D39 2009 DVD
This benevolent experiment : Indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in Canada and the United States
Call Number: E 96 W64 2015
A Knock on the Door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 T778 2016
Playing the Race Card : Exposing White Power and Privilege
Call Number: E 184 A1 D293 2004
Residential schools : with the words and images of survivors
Call Number: E 96.5 L69 2014
Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian residential schools
Call Number: E 96.5 N53 2017