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Historical context · Document / PDF

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 2 — 1939 to 2000

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation · The second historical part follows the system's operation and dismantling from 1939 to 2000. Chapters examine education, child welfare, health, discipline, abuse, sports, staff and the closing of schools.

Historical context · Document / PDF

Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation · This volume considers the continuing legacy of residential schools and the Commission's recommendations. Use its chapters and source notes to connect historical policies with the Commission's account of present-day institutions and responsibilities.

Historical context · Document / PDF

Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation · The Commission's dedicated Métis volume addresses distinct policy and student experiences, including a chapter on Île-à-la-Crosse in Saskatchewan. It helps readers avoid treating First Nations and Métis residential-school histories as interchangeable.

Canoe engineering

Different waters, materials and designs

Historical context · Text

Canoe Lake Cree First Nation: John Iron and Treaty 10

Canoe Lake Cree First Nation; account cites Anthony Gulig, Saskatchewan History, 1998 · The Nation's community page presents an account of Chief John Iron's Treaty 10 concerns and requests at a 1907 annuity meeting. It points readers to Anthony Gulig's research on Treaty Ten negotiations.

Career Centre

Find schools, scholarships, sponsorships, training support and career resources.

Cayuga

Members live at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, and elsewhere · A distinct Haudenosaunee Nation. This community location is not its full ancestral homeland.

Archival record · Photograph

Chief Thunderchild

Our Legacy; University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections · Portrait catalogued as Chief Thunderchild in western clothing, wearing what the description identifies tentatively as Treaty medals.

Original resource

Choosing authentic First Peoples resources

Primary document · Document / PDF

Citizens Plus, 1970: the Red Paper

Indian Chiefs of Alberta; reprinted in Aboriginal Policy Studies, University of Alberta; copy hosted by Centre for Indigenous Development · The Indian Chiefs of Alberta responded to the White Paper by defending Treaty rights, lands and the responsibilities of the federal government. This PDF is a later journal reprint of the 1970 presentation and counter-policy.

Related peoples

Coast Salish peoples

Salish Sea, lower Fraser and surrounding coastal lands · A broad grouping of related peoples and languages, including many distinct Nations.

Original resource

Community-developed lesson plans

National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education

Original resource

Connected North session menu

TakingITGlobal · Connected North

Primary document · Text

Constitution Act, 1982: section 35

Department of Justice Canada · Part II recognizes and affirms existing Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Section 35 names Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples and includes treaty rights arising from land-claims agreements; read all four subsections together.

Contact was not one moment

Regional encounters in an already connected continent

Curriculum reference

Culture and Citizenship in Québec · Elementary program

Québec · Curriculum

Dakelh

Central interior of British Columbia · Dakelh territories include the lake country of the central interior.

Dakota

Saskatchewan and neighbouring regions · One of the distinct peoples whose languages and cultures are supported by SICC.

Deep-time evidence

Bluefish Caves and White Sands ask different questions

Curriculum reference

Dene Kede and Inuuqatigiit

Northwest Territories · Foundational curricula

Denesuline

Named Dene communities of northern Saskatchewan

Archival record · Photograph

Dumont, Gabriel, Grave

Gabriel Dumont Institute · Photograph catalogued as Gabriel Dumont’s grave at Batoche.

Dënesųłiné

Northern Saskatchewan and the wider northern interior · Dënesųłiné communities are part of the diverse Dene peoples.

Original resource

Elementary Treaty Resource Kit

Office of the Treaty Commissioner