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Shingwauk's vision : a history of Native residential schools / J.R. Miller.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802008336 (bound) :
- ISBN: 9780802078582 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 080200833X (bound) :
- ISBN: 0802078583 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 582 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1996.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: 'The True Realization of Chief Shingwauk's Vision' -- 1. 'The Three Ls'': The Traditional Education of the Indigenous Peoples -- 2. 'No Notable Fruit Was Seen': Residential School Experiments in New France -- 3. 'Teach Them How to Live Well and to Die Happy': Residential Schooling in British North America -- 4. 'Calling In the Aid of Religion': Creating a Residential School System -- 5. 'Dressing Up a Dead Branch with Flowers': The Expansion and Consolidation of the Residential School System -- 6. 'To Have the "Indian" Educated Out of Them': Classroom and Class -- 7. 'The Means of Wiping Out the Whole Indian Establishment': Race and Assimilation -- 8. 'The Misfortune of Being a Woman': Gender -- 9. 'Such Employment He Can Get at Home': Work and Play -- 10. 'Bleeding the Children to Feed the Mother-House': Child 'Care' -- 11. 'Sadness, Pain, and Misery Were My Legacy as an Indian': Abuse -- 12. 'You Ain't My Boss': Resistance -- 13. 'Our Greatest Need Today Is Proper Education': Winding Down the System -- 14. Shingwauk's Vision/Aboriginal Nightmare: An Assessment. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation (copy 4 only) ; 2005/05. |
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| Topic Heading: | First Nations interest |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | E 96.5 .M55 1996 (Text) | 11111001000746 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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The harmonious integration of Aboriginal and Western education witnessed by the title's vision stands in contrast to the reality of residential schools for Native children in Canada. Miller (history, U. of Saskatchewan) studies the foundations of residential schooling in 17th century New France, its evolution in the 1800s, and its eventual demise in the 1960s. The author brings parity to his painstaking research, treating the motivations of missionaries, government officials, and Natives with equal attendance, but without excusing the abuses of the residential method of instruction and work which have been characterized as an attempt at "cultural genocide." Canadian card order number C95-933161-1. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 1997 March
Using 19th-century Ojibwa leader Shingwauk's dream for the "proper education" of Native children as a vision for Native catharsis and educational renewal, Miller (history, Univ. of Saskatchewan, author of Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens, CH, Jan'90, and editor of Sweet Promises: A Reader in Indian-White Relations in Canada, 1991) provides the first comprehensive, well-documented history of Native residential schools in Canada. Interviews of Native people interwoven with church and government archival materials produce a lively illustrated oral history that traces this Canadian institution from its 17th-century New France roots, through its birth in the early 1800s, expansion, struggles, problems, and phase-out in the 1960s, to its contemporary implementation in some Native educational systems. The stark realities of Native and non-Native "inmates" of residential schools dramatically demonstrate the ill-conceived nature and eventual thwarting of racist, assimilationist, integrationist, and purely economic objectives of aloof but powerful clerics and politicians, and underscore the unfulfilled educational dreams of Native people. Vivid pictures of classrooms, play, and work reveal prevalent forms of racial and gender discrimination, child "care," and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and justify Native criticism and resistance. Miller addresses the demise and aftermath of the residential school system and asks whether Euro-Canadians will "oppress, support or tyrannize" Native efforts to realize Shingwauk's vision. With endnotes and many old photographs, this sobering book surveys this protracted, grievous chapter of Canadian history. Required reading in Native, historical, educational, sociological, anthropological, and political studies. All levels. Copyright 1999 American Library Association
