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Michael Cachagee was a well known advocate and speaker on relating to residential schools. [7] He was a founding member of the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, [8] the National Residential School Survivor Society, and Ontario Indian Residential School Support Services.
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indigenous boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indigenous residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
Advertised as "Shingwauk Reunion 1991: 160th anniversary of Chief Shingwauk's Vision" the event resulted in hundreds of residential school survivors, community members, politicians, clergy, and residential school staff gathering at Algoma University College. [10]
Survivors took turns speaking into a microphone in front of a full gymnasium at the Riverside Indian School in Anadarko on July 9. Anadarko was the first stop on the Road to Healing listening tour ...
Shingwauk Project logo. The Shingwauk Project was started in 1979 by Algoma University professor Don Jackson and numerous local partners including: Lloyd Bannerman of Algoma University College, Ron Boissoneau of Garden River First Nation, Dan Pine Sr. a residential school survivor and member of Garden River First Nation, and many other former students of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Indian ...
We Were Children is a 2012 Canadian documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2] [3] [4]Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk and written by Jason Sherman, the film recounts the experiences of two residential school survivors: Lyna Hart, who was sent to the Guy Hill Residential School in Manitoba at age 4; and Glen Anaquod, who ...
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St. Mary's Indian Residential School was the name of two Indian residential schools in Mission, British Columbia. The first was operated by the Roman Catholic Church of Canada, and the second was operated by the Canadian federal government. Approximately 2,000 children attended the schools while they were in operation, [1] most of them Stó:lō.