EDUC4729 ISSUES IN NATIVE

RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION
ULETH 2020

SCHOOLS &
RECONCILIATION
BY NICOLE PERL & KATE LAWLESS

A RESOURCE FOR TEACHING

ABOUT RESIDENTIAL
SCHOOLS & RECONCILIATION
History RESOURCES TO USE IN THE
150,000 FNMI children went through the Residential School system. CLASSROOM FROM K-12
(Survivors Speak, VI) WALKING TOGETHER- TEACHER
Conditions in the schools were horrible and many parents were never RESOURCE:
informed if their children were sick, ran away or died. (Survivors Speak, VII) HTTP://WWW.LEARNALBERTA.CA/CO
The last federally operated residential school closed in 1996, called NTENT/ASWT/
Gordon Indian Residential School and was located in Punnichy, ORANGE SHIRT DAY:
Saskatchewan. HTTP://WWW.ORANGESHI
On June 11, 2008 Stephen Harper issued a public apology on behalf of the RTDAY.ORG/
Canadian government to the Indigenous communities and people that were
affected by the residential school system.  ATA FNMI RESOURCES:
On June 22, 2015 Rachel Notley issued an apology to the Indigenous HTTPS://WWW.TEACHERS.AB.C
A/FOR%20MEMBERS/PROGRAM
people in Alberta specifically. SANDSERVICES/ATALIBRARY/P
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began collecting stories from AGES/FNMI.ASPX
survivors of residential schools in order to share the lived experiences of I AM NOT A NUMBER (BOOK)
those who attended residential schools TOLD BY A SURVIVOR. A
As teachers we need to do all that we can to work on Truth & PICTURE BOOK DEALS WITH
Reconciliation with our students. MORE DESCRIPTIVE STORIES.

TEACHING RESOURCES
COMPILED BY NICOLE PERL & KATE LAWLESS
Survivors Speak
ttp://www.trc.ca/assets/pdf/Survivors_Sp
eak_English_Web.pdf (Survivors
Speak)https://blackfoot.atlas-ling.ca
Blackfoot dictionary
https://blackfoot.atlas-ling.ca (Blackfoot This book is a great resource for
Dictionary--Made by Blackfoot people)
UofL FNMI Resources
http://library.ulethbridge.ca/FNMI
Curr. Lab FNMI Resources
https://airtable.com/shrNIbBIx60owZzBh
/tbl1m3Zc1tTWu2GLm?blocks=hide
Piikani Paitapiiyssin Phone App
This is an app made by Piikani Child and
Family services. It is an app that was
created in order to provide Indigenous
children who may not have connections
with their culture with connections to the
Blackfoot culture through language and
stories.
List of FNMI resources by Indigenous
authors
This is more focused towards
Indigenous tribes and people in British
Columbia.
Please see our presentation slides for more resources...
EDUC4729 ISSUES IN NATIVE
EDUCATION
ULETH 2020
https://fnmiteacherresources.weebly.com
This website is a website with a list of FNMI
lesson plans and unit plans for different
subject areas. It also has an in depth and
descriptive resource list.
Speaking our Truth: A Journey
of Reconciliation
teachers and is written by an
Indigenous woman. It has
activities and information
designed to teach children
about reconciliation in an
appropriate and correct way.
Fatty Legs
A picture book that is specific to
Residential Schools. This book would be
appropriate for younger grades as a
way to introduce children to the history
of residential schools. It also could be
used in higher aged classrooms as a
way to begin having more in depth
conversations about residential schools.
They Came for the children
https://humanrights.ca/education-
resources/record/1c915d23-4d65-
4b66-9735-6e2a14527d5a/ (They Came
for the Children is a document
published by Truth and Reconciliation
Canada and is an interactive and
informative document made for Grades
9-12 to educate students about the
history of residential schools.)