Resources on Indian Residential Schools

AFN-Residential Schools Unit Newsletters

1. Fall Edition 2004
2. Winter-Spring Edition March 2005
3. Summer Edition June 2005 -

Community Support Services

• Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Help Desk
  1-800-816-7293
  
  
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society
  24-HOUR NATIONAL CRISIS LINE
  1-866-925-4419
  Provides free, immediate, confidential, nonjudgemental support for Residential School Survivors across Canada 24 hours a day/7 days a week. This is a toll free call.
  

Resources & Books on Residential Schools

RESOURCES:

• Assembly of First Nations Report on Canada's Dispute Resolution Plan to Compensate for Abuses in Indian Residential Schools - Nov. 2004
  
  
• CBC Archives - A Lost Heritage - Canada's Residential Schools
  (Archived Video and Audio Clips from CBC News)
  
  
• Daniel N. Paul - Mi'kmaq Author
• Law Commission Reports and Discussion Papers
• Collections Canada - Indian Affairs Annual Reports from 1864-1990
• Collections Canada - Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography
• University of Saskatchewan - Bibliography
• http://www.ammsa.com/classroom/CLASS5books.html
• Department of Justice Canada - HEALING THE PAST: Addressing the Legacy of Physical and Sexual Abuse in Indian Residential Schools
• Current Class Actions: Poyner Baxter - Indian Residential Schools
• Thomson Rogers - Class Action Litigation - Native Residential Schools Abuse
  

 

BOOKS:

• Breaking the Silence (English)- An Interpretive Study of Residential School Impact and Healing as Illustrated by the Stories of First Nation Individuals
  ISBN 0-919682-40-5 ©1994 - AFN (Available for purchase through AFN)
  
  
• Chapters List of books on Residential Schools
  
  
• Stolen From Our Embrace
  Author :  Ernie Crey ,  Suzanne Fournier
  Published By:  Douglas & McIntyre
  Trade Paperback
  ISBN :1550546619
  Published : August 1998
  
  
• Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
  Author :  J. R. Miller
  Published By:  University of Toronto Press
  Trade Paperback
  ISBN :0802078583
  Published : January 1996
  
  
• Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Canadian Native Women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School
  Author :  Agnes Grant
  Published By:  Fifth House Books
  Trade Paperback
  ISBN :1894856570
  Published : October 2004
  
  
• "National Crime": Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
  Author :  John, S. Milloy
  Trade Paperback
  ISBN :0887556469
  Published : April 1999
  
  
• Resistance And Renewal
  Author :  Celia Haig-Brown
  Published By:  Arsenal Pulp
  Trade Paperback
  ISBN :0889781893
  Published : January 1999

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