Residential School Resources

Residential School Resources

The residential school system are more then a dark chapter of Canadian history and are still affecting indigenous people today through intergenerational trauma and ongoing systemic discrimination and in-action buy the government...

Support:

National Indian Residential School Crisis Line 1-866 925-4419

Indian Residential School Survivors Society – 24 Hour Crisis Line 1-800-721-0066

Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program:

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1581971225188/1581971250953

 

EDUCATION/RESOURCES:

Remains of 215 children found buried at former Kamloops B.C. residential school

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml%C3%BAps-te-secw%C3%A9pemc-215-children-former-kamloops-indian-residential-school-1.6043778

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC)

http://www.trc.ca/

We Were Children (Documentary)

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0KZY512UGFV0WFZVHN352PJVO4/ref=atv_sr_def_c_unkc__1_1_1?sr=1-1&pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&pageTypeId=B07B22ZV9L&qid=1622567462

The Residential School System

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

Legacy of Hope

http://legacyofhope.ca/english/education/

Orange Shirt Day

https://www.orangeshirtday.org/about-us.html

The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the concept of historical trauma

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363461513503380

Residential schools and the effects on Indigenous health and well-being in Canada—a scoping review

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40985-017-0055-6

Putting an End to the Silence: Educating Society about the Canadian Residential School System

https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1013&context=bridges_contemporary_connections

Reducing the number of Indigenous children in care

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851

Why Indigenous children are overrepresented in Canada's foster care system

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/why-indigenous-children-are-overrepresented-in-canadas-foster-care-system/

 

 

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