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  2. Margaret Pokiak-Fenton - Wikipedia

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    Her stories relayed the horrors of the residential school system in terms that could be understood by young readers. Her stories also relayed the experience of living in the north of Canada. [ 3 ] Pokiak-Fenton and Jordan-Fenton extensively toured Canada, and also visited the United States and Cuba, to tell the story of residential schools ...

  3. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The report noted that an estimated 150,000 children attended residential schools during its 120-year history and an estimated 3200 of those children died in the residential schools. [61] From the 70,000 former IRS students still alive, there were 31,970 sexual or serious sexual assault cases resolved by Independent Assessment Process, and 5,995 ...

  4. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    The other survivors founded the SJM Project, and on September 30, 2013—the time of the year when Indigenous children were taken away to residential schools—they encouraged students in schools in the area to wear an orange shirt in memory of the victims of the residential school system. [226]

  5. Prudence Crandall - Wikipedia

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    Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, [1] which became the first school for black girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States.

  6. Phyllis Webstad - Wikipedia

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    Phyllis Webstad (née Jack; born July 13, 1967) is a Northern Secwepemc (Shuswap) author and activist from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, [note 1] and the creator of Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance marked in Canada later instated as the public holiday of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

  7. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, 9,500 American Indian children lived in an Indian boarding school dormitory. [citation needed] From 1879 when the Carlisle Indian School was founded to the present day, more than 100,000 American Indians are estimated to have attended an Indian boarding school. A similar system in Canada was known as the Canadian residential school system.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    At one Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Patrick ran into two young women he knew from rehab. Those women could be bad news, he confessed to his mother one afternoon in their kitchen. Let’s get out the NA schedule and find a different meeting, Anne offered. Patrick told her he’d already found a later one to attend. He had it covered.

  9. Media portrayals of the Canadian Indian residential school ...

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    Year Title Author ISBN Notes 1988: Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School: Celia Haig-Brown: ISBN 0889781893: One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.