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Differing Visions: Administering Indian Residential Schooling in Prince Albert, 1867-1995

Foreword from the Author, Page 7-8:

"Indian people in the Prince Albert Grand Council have long recognized the importance of education for our children. Our future as a people depends upon our ability to prepare our children to deal with a rapidly changing world that is not always sensitive to our need and determination to retain and build our culture and communities. To succeed in this it will be necessary to understand the often unhappy history of our relations with governments, religious denominations and other non-Indian agencies.

Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism.

From the Publisher:

"Growing a Race challenges the traditional reading of the fiction of Nellie McClung (1873-1951), revered author and pioneering feminist, situating it within a discourse of eugenical feminism that sought a racially homogenous "white Dominion." Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenica

Separate Beds

From the Title Page:

"Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients.

No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous

Publisher's Abstract:

"Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the “surrender clause” and land sharing.

A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905

This publication is featured frequently in the Timeline Resource

This book is an introduction to the history of the territory now known as Saskatchewan prior to 1905. It should also be noted that Waiser’s book Saskatchewan: A New History, published in 2005 is meant to complement A World We Have Lost. That said, topics, themes etc. that are covered in Saskatchewan: A New History are purposely left out of A World we have Lost.

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

From the Publisher:

"Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

Shattering the Silence: The Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in Saskatchewan

This ebook was created by Shuana Nissen for the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina for the purpose of curriculum and general inquiries. This ebook provides important contextual information on the pass system, compulsory attendance, and high mortality rates in residential schools. Profiles of each federally recognized residential school in Saskatchewan and testimonies from survivors about their experiences are key elements of the eBook.  

 

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

Excerpt from Authors' Introduction:

"Indigenous men and those who identify with Indigenous masculinities, as this book shows, are faced with distinct gender and racial biases that cause many to struggle. This book of essays explores and seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which Indigenous men and those who assert an Indigenous male identity perform their masculine identities, why and how they perform them, and the consequences to them and others because of their attachment to those identities.

Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation

Excerpt from the Author, Page 10-11:

"...Recently, scholars, having recognized that race as a “natural human division in human populations has been widely discredited by science,” have focused their attention on Métis cultural expression rather than race as the source of difference. Nevertheless, race is still an implied factor in many scholars’ discussion of, for example, the ethnogenesis of the Métis.