17 research outputs found

    To Make Good Canadians: Girl Guiding in Indian Residential Schools

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    Between 1910 and 1970, the Guide movement became active and, indeed, prolific in Indian residential, day, and hostel schools, sanatoriums, reserves and Northern communities throughout Canada. In these contexts, Guiding embraced not only twentieth century youth citizenship training schemes, but also the colonial project of making First Nations and Inuit people good citizens. But ironically, while the Guide programme endeavoured to produce moral, disciplined and patriotic girls who would be prepared to undertake home and civic responsibilities as dutiful mothers and wives, it also encouraged girls to study and imitate 'wild' Indians. This thesis will explore the ways in which Girl Guides prepared girls for citizenship, arguing that the Indian, who signified to Guides authentic adventure, primitive skills and civic duty, was a model for their training. 'Playing Indian' enabled Guides to access these 'authentic' Indian virtues. It also enabled them to deny their roles as proponents of colonialism.Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Canadian Studies and Native Studie

    'I Would Like the Girls at Home': Domestic Labor and the Age of Discharge at Canadian Indian Residential Schools

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    Republished by permission of the editors.Survivors of Canadian Indian residential schools and their descendants will often recall discharge from the schools occurring at the age of either sixteen or eighteen. In fact the discharge of students from residential schools at the ages of sixteen or eighteen was a significant point of contention both for parents and other relatives of students as well as for school officials. This chapter examines the struggle over age of discharge between 1920 and 1940 through the lens of correspondence between parents and other family members, the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) and school staff about the return of female pupils. Parents and other relatives of the students initiated the exchange, requesting that pupils nearing or past the age of sixteen be returned to them hecause they were needed at home. In response, school staff wanting to retain students to the age of eighteen and beyond insisted that female students needed the further domestic training, moral uplift and protection offered by the schools so that they could be 'fitted' to undertake employment as domestic servants upon discharge. In fact it was often the need of the schools for the domestic labor of female students that was the real concern. On both sides of the issue, gender mattered and the struggle illuminates the importance of young Indigenous women to both economies of colonization and to Indigenous communities

    The MCC Summer Service Program and Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital

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    Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students

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    This practice guide provides three recommendations for teaching algebra to students in middle school and high school. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common roadblocks. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve their students’ algebra knowledge.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/edu_books/1000/thumbnail.jp

    Nii Ndahlohke

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    This catalogue of the Nii Ndahlohke exhibition at Art Windsor Essex (September 26, 2023 – June 25, 2024) features work by First Nations artists exploring the history of forced labour of students at Mount Elgin Industrial School (1851-1946).This project was supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

    Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students

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    This practice guide provides three recommendations for teaching algebra to students in middle school and high school. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common roadblocks. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve their students’ algebra knowledge.</p
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