International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3 (June 2014), pp. 1-18 (20 pages) The objective of this study was to explore, as an example of structural racism, the effects of residential ...

Last year, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history.

Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

Introduction -- Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been ...

An offering is seen at the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School June 12, 2021. Researchers—partnered with the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation—located 104 potential graves at the site in ...

Re: “Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada” [July 24, Nation & World]: More than 350 similar Indigenous boarding schools existed in the U.S., including Washington. The time to ...

A First Nations leader in B.C. says she’s calling for MLA Dallas Brodie to resign due to her anti-Indigenous and residential ...

The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for “Sugarcane.” Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, the filmmakers behind the ...

In late May of 2021, when spring was unfurling across the country, Canadians awakened to the discovery near Kamloops, British Columbia of 200 dead Indigenous children in unmarked graves. More grizzly ...

The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a ...