Bibliography

First Nations and Residential Schools

An authoritative overview of the history of residential schools in Canada was published as Chapter 10 of the recent Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples (1996). The chapter, entitled Residential Schools, is now available, on-line.

Other sources, many of which focus on British Columbia, are listed below.

Barman, Jean, Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill (eds.) Indian Education in Canada. Vol. I: The Legacy, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986.

Barman, Jean. "Lost Opportunity: All Hallows School for Indians and White Girls, 1884-1920," British Columbia Historical News, Vol. 22 (Spring 1989): 6-9; and in Jean Barman, Neil Sutherland, and J. Donald Wilson (eds.), Children, Teachers & Schools in the History of British Columbia, (Calgary: Detselig, 1995).

---------- "Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children," in Children, Teachers & Schools in the History of British Columbia, (1995).

----------"Family vs. Schools: Children of Aboriginal Descent in British Columbia Classrooms of the Late Nineteenth Century," in Edgar-Andre Montigny and Lori Chambers (eds.), Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Family History (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1998).

Chrisjohn, Roland and Shari Young, with Michael Maraun, The Circle Game. Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada, Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 1987

Furniss, Elizabeth. Victims of benevolence: discipline & death at the Williams Lake Indian residential school, 1891-1920 , Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995.

Grant, Agnes. No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada, Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications, 1996.

Gresko, Jacqueline. "White 'rites' and Indian 'rites': Indian education and Native responses in the West, 1870-1910, in David C. Jones, Nancy M. Sheehan, and Robert M. Stamp (eds.), Shaping the Schools of the Canadian West, Calgary: Detselig, 1979.

---------- "Creating little dominions within the Dominion: Early Catholic Indian Education Schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia," in Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill (eds.) Indian Education in Canada. Vol. I: The Legacy, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986.

Haig-Brown, Celia. Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, Vancouver: Tillacum Library, 1988.

Miller, J. R. Shingwauk's Visions. A History of Indian Residential Schools, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Milloy, John S. "A National Crime:" The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Raibmon, Paige. "'A New Understanding of Things Indian:' George Raley's Negotiation of the Residential School Experience," [Coqualeetza Residential School, Sardis, B.C.], BC Studies , No. 110 (Summer 1996) 69-96.

Redford, James. "Attendance at Indian Residential Schools in British Columbia, 1890-1920," BC Studies, No. 44 (Winter 1979/80).

Satzewich, Vic, and Linda Mahood. "Indian Agents and the Residential School System in Canada, 1946-1970," Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 1995): 45-69.

Titley, E. Brian. "Indian Industrial Schools in Western Canada," in Nancy M. Sheehan, J. Donald Wilson, and David C. Jones (eds.), Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History, Calgary: Detselig, 1986.


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