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Canada's Residential Schools
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COURT CASES
Past Abuse and Loss of Earnings Supreme Court of Canada April 2005
Blackwater vs Plint BC Court of Appeal December 2003
Blackwater et al v. Plint et al BC Supreme Court July 2001
Vicarious Liability The Case Against Arthur Plint The United Church and Canada June 1998
RELEVANT CASE LAW
T.W.N.A. v. Canada / Indian Affairs BC Court of Appeal December 5, 2003
Trilogy of decisions
K.L.B. v. British Columbia Supreme Court of Canada Liability and the abuse of children by foster parents October 2, 2003
E.D.G. v. Hammer Supreme Court of Canada Liability and sexual abuse by school staff October 2, 2003
M.B. v. British Columbia Supreme Court of Canada Liability for sexual abuse of foster child October 2, 2003 -------
E.B. v. Order of Oblates BC Court of Appeal May, 2003
E.B. v. Order of Oblates BC Supreme Court Decision Christie Indian Residential School December, 2001
Mohawk Institute Cloud Class Action
American Lawsuit
Indian Boarding Schools
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Intergenerational Links to Residential Schools .pdf file
Genocide Indian Residential Schools and Indian Boarding Schools
Guidelines For Lawyers Acting for Survivors of Indian Residential Schools
"Acknowledging the past is the only way to allow us to move forward
with dignity." ... Nathalie Des Rosiers, President, Law Commission of Canada, August 15, 2001
Inkameep Day School Art Collection
Historic Perspective
APOLOGIES
Canada's 2008 Apology
Canada's apology to the Nuu-chah-nulth
Anglican Church Apology
Presbyterian Church Confession
Oblates Apologize This is a .pdf file
United Church Apologies
Catholic Church Apology 1992 .pdf
OTHER COURT CASES
March 2002 BC Supreme Court rules against Homalco First Nation woman Hilda Francis who said she was raped repeatedly at Sechelt Indian Residential School
Floyd Stephen Mowatt,vs the Anglican Church and Canada BC Supreme Court
Indian Residential Schools background cited at sentencing of three Aboriginal men who killed Douglas Gormley in Kamloops
Catholics and Indian Residential Schools Catholics Claim There Were Good Times Too
Children Left Behind The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools Tim Giago
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Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988).
Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School.
Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd.
0-88978-189-3.
"The elimination of language has always been a primary stage in a process of cultural genocide. This was the primary function of the residential school. My father was physically tortured by his teachers for speaking Tseshaht: they pushed sewing needles through his tongue, a routine punishment for language offenders?The needle tortures suffered by my father affected all my family. My dad's attitude was "why teach my children Indian if they are going to be punished for speaking it?" (Randy Fred, p. 16).
This collection of First Nations Peoples stories and views on the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia serves two main purposes. First, to provide a written history of the residential school system in Canada, from the perspective of First Nations Peoples themselves, not as a rationale by government or missionaries. Second, the book sets out to provide a limited overview on the evolution of First Nations Peoples Education in Canada. Despite the wide-spread injustices that First Nations students faced, what is of particular interest in this book is the First Nations resistance movement that developed against the residential schools for control over their own education and destiny.
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