Indian Residential Schools
Published on Nov 19, 2015
A brief history of the Indian Residential Schools System in Canada and book talk - designed for English Language Learners
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
What Was Your First Day of School Like?
Canadian Residential Schools Propaganda Video (1955)
Photo by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives
"When I Was Eight"
By: Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Who?
The Canadian Government and the Christian Churches
What?
Students attended for 10-months a year
The Last School Closed in 1996
The Gordon Residential School, Saskatchewan
When?
Between the 1870s and 1990s
Where?
There were over 139 Residential Schools in Canada
18 Were in BC
Why?
To Assimilate Aboriginal Peoples into Canadian Society
7 Generations
Graphic Novel Collection
These are 4 Graphic Novels
About a boy discovering his families past
Scars
By: David Alexander Robertson
Ends/Begins
By: David Alexander Robertson
The Pact
By: David Alexander Robertson
Here's another Graphic Novel
About a girl's Residential School Story
Want to Learn More?
Photo by Ali Alcaide
Check out the Author
David Alexander Robertson
My Name is Seepeetza
By: Shirley Sterling
Fatty Legs
By: Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Stranger At Home
Savage
A Residential School Musical
Savage
https://vimeo.com/68582103
Written & Directed by Lisa Jackson
Starring Skeena Reece & Ta'Kaiya Blaney
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.
In a place like this, there aren’t many chances to be a kid. But, when no one’s watching…
A residential school musical.
https://vimeo.com/68582103
Written & Directed by Lisa Jackson
Starring Skeena Reece & Ta'Kaiya Blaney
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.
In a place like this, there aren’t many chances to be a kid. But, when no one’s watching…
A residential school musical.
Photo by Kris Krug
