"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away..."--Provided by publisher.
"For more than 100 years, Canada's First Nations, Inuits, and Metis people endured an educational system designed to essentially remove all evidence of their native identities. Children were mistreated and stripped of their identities as they were educated in the ways of a nation that wanted no trace of the Indian. This insightful resource provides a history of Canada and outlines the development of attitudes that resulted in the residential education system, as well as a glimpse into the experiences of children who made it through. Readers will also learn about efforts to help a nation continue to heal"--Amazon.com.
Adam Fortunate Eagle, an enrolled member of the Ojibwe Nation, was a young student at the Pipestone Indian Boarding School and offers a rare, firsthand account that disproves the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. He attended the school between 1935 and 1945 and has fond memories of his time there. He grew up to be a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz.
Shi-shi-etko gathers together many of the things of nature and places them into her bag of memories so that she will never forget her people and land as she prepares to go many miles away to the required residential school.
the genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools
Churchill, Ward
2004
Chronicles the Native American's forced assimilation into white man's culture between 1880 and 1980 and provides a comprehensive study of the overall effects upon the lives of those children who were taken from their families.
Presents the history of Native American boarding schools in America, offering both negative and positive experiences, and discussing their legacy. Includes a chronology, biographical sketches, a glossary, and primary documents.
Draws from the letters of parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas, and the Flandreau school in South Dakota, to explore the emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the early twentieth century.
Text and photos describe the off-reservation boarding schools run by white Americans that many Native American children were forced to attend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Shi-shi-etko and her brother Shin-chi are sent to an Indian residential school. Draws on interviews with survivors of Indian residential schools to describe daily life at the school where they were forced to use English names, study, work, and never speak to each other.
