Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School

Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day SchoolThe atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended. The Curve Lake Indian Day School operated for over ninety years, from 1899 to 1978. Implementing Indigenous community research practices, Jackson Pind, alongside the Chief and Council of Curve Lake First Nation, conducted a search of the federal archive on operations

For as long as Paul could remember there were eagle feathers around him

This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort

Replete with universal lessons

The central concern uniting this collection is language itself: the weight and significance of English and Keres

Staples's work is emotional without being sentimental

That is who I was born and how I have lived

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Why do we bead

providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness

which was co-produced and co-directed by Germaine Arnattaujuq and Neil Christopher

Now fifty-three

identity and community affiliation