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  1. American Indian boarding schools
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    American Indian boarding schools were boarding schools established in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to educate Native American children and youths according to Euro-American standards. They were first established by Christian missionaries of various denominations, who often started schools on reservations and founded boarding schools to provide opportunities for children who did not have schools nearby.
  2. Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
  3. Broken Circle
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    A two-part excerpt from Theodore Fontaine's book Broken Circle, a memoir of surviving the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba -- and pursuing his own path to healing.
  4. Canadian Indian residential school system
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Indian residential schools of "residential" (boarding) schools for Native Canadians (First Nations or "Indians"; Métis; and Inuit, formerly "Eskimos") funded by the Canadian government's Indian Affairs and Northern Department, and administered by Christian churches, most notably the Catholic Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. The system had origins in pre-Confederation times, but was primarily active following the passage of the Indian Act in 1876, until the mid-20th century. An amendment to the Indian Act made attendance of a day, industrial or residential school compulsory for First Nations children and, in some parts of the country, residential schools were the only option.
  5. Duplessis Orphans
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    Resource Type: Article
    The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions.
  6. Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.
  7. Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2014
    There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for "fallen women." The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961.
  8. The Gladys We Never Knew
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
  9. Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
    High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
  10. The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
    'I Want to Know Who's Down There'

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
  11. Mount Cashel Orphanage
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    Resource Type: Article
    The Mount Cashel Orphanage was a Canadian orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland.
  12. A National Crime
    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Milloy chronicles the heart-breaking realities of the Residential School. This institiution separated thousands of Native children from their families in the Canadian Government's pursuit of "aggressive civilization."
  13. Our Spirits Don't Speak English
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2008
    A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
  14. Report on Australian Stolen Generations
    Bringing Them Home Report

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made. We remember and lament all the children who will never come home.
  15. Sleeping Children Awake
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1992
    A feature length documentary video outlining the history of the residential school system and its effect on generations of First Nations’ people in Canada.
  16. Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
  17. Stolen Generations
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1909 and 1969.
  18. They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
  19. This Benevolent Experiment
    Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.
  20. We Were Children
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A 2012 documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.


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