Documents:
"History of Indian Residential Schools" by Cold Lake First Nations
Where are the children? Healing the legacy of the residential schools. Exhibit link has excellent materials in a number of sections including:
- Assimilation
- Home
- Leaving Home
- Residential Schools
- School scenes from the Blackfoot Reserve, Alberta
- Schools scenes from the lens of Sister Liliane
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation Residential Schools resources page has a number of tremendous resources including:
Indian and Northern Affairs Annual Report 1973-74 regarding the policy paper by the Nation Indian Brotherhood called "Indian Control of Indian Education" - click to view pages 43 and 44.
House of Commons Debates June 11, 2008: Official Apology to former students of Indian residential schools offered by Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper
1922 Document: The Story of a National Crime: An Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canda
Multicultural Canada has a lot of information on individual First Nations with regard to education both before the Residential Schools and afterwards.
- MC Canada: Education, Language, Communication of the Algonquian Peoples
- MC Canada: Culture, Religion, Education of the Ktunaxa people
- MC Canada: Education, Language, Communication of the Na-dene
- MC Canada: Education, Language, Communication of the Tsimshian
- MC Canada: Education, Language, Communication of the Wakashans
- MC Canada: Education, Language, Communication of the Iriquois
National Post: "Residential Schools a sad chapter in our history Harper tells First Nations"
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Documents:
Knet Media Blog: Attawapiskat First Nation declares state of emergency and closes schools due to fumes
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Chronology: Attawapiskat First Nation Elementary School 1996-2009
Attawapiskat First Nation Website
(scroll down for entries and images)
Facebook Page: Attawapiskat Children Fight for School
Daily Press - "Attawapiskat gets green light for new school"
Blog: Attawapiskat state of emergency ignored by Government
The Star Online: Kids show way in fight for school
Canoe.ca: Timmins, ON's "Daily Press": Attawapiskat has big reason to celebrate this Christmas
(NB. The video resources listed below are very important to this case as the power of YouTube was harnessed by parties in Attawapiskat in their campaign to get funds for a new school.)
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