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Not My Girl (2014) Not My Girl, published by Annick Press on July 1, 2014, is a non-fiction picture book memoir that tells the story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's return home after two years at residential school. It tells the story of Margaret's mother angrily saying “Not my girl!” because Pokiak-Fenton's hair is short, she no longer speaks ...
The Canadian Indian residential school system[nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [nb 2] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches. The school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nora Bernard. Nora Bernard ONS (September 22, 1935 – December 26, 2007) was a Canadian Mi'kmaq activist who sought compensation for survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system. She was directly responsible for what became the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history, representing an estimated 79,000 survivors; the ...
The Kuper Island Indian Residential School, also known as Kuper Island Indian Industrial School, was a Canadian Indian residential school located on Kuper Island (now known as Penelakut Island), near Chemainus, British Columbia, that operated from 1889 to 1975. [2] The school was operated by the Roman Catholic Church, with funding from the ...
Hosted by Stephanie Cram of CBC Manitoba, the film profiles several survivors of the Indian residential school system, including Ernie Daniels, an activist who is working to convert the former residential school in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba into a national museum about the history of the residential schools.
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA; French: Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens, CRRPI [1]) is an agreement between the government of Canada and approximately 86,000 Indigenous peoples in Canada who at some point were enrolled as children in the Canadian Indian residential school system, a system which was in place between 1879 and 1997.