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INDIGENOUS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL [8 records]

Record 1 2023-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Canadian)
  • Funeral Services
  • Indigenous Sociology
  • Aboriginal Law
OBS

Leaders at the National Gathering on Unmarked Burials are saying Indigenous communities need to access all documents about children who never returned home from Canada's residential school system, citing the path to truth and reconciliation in the gathering.... Many of the challenges facing searches for missing children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools are tied to Indigenous data sovereignty...

OBS

[The National Gathering on Unmarked Burials] is focused on the search for unmarked burials and recovery of missing children who were never returned home from Indian Residential Schools.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux canadiens
  • Pompes funèbres
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
  • Droit autochtone
OBS

Le Bureau de l'interlocutrice spéciale indépendante pour les enfants disparus et les tombes et les sépultures anonymes en lien avec les pensionnats indiens tiendra le premier Rassemblement national sur les sépultures anonymes [...] L'événement consistera en deux journées de séances et de dialogues en petits groupes et en des présentations d'experts et de la collectivité qui mettront l'accent sur les efforts visant à retrouver les enfants disparus qui sont décédés alors qu'ils étaient forcés de fréquenter les pensionnats indiens.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
DEF

A school where pupils are provided with meals and lodging during the school term.

OBS

residential school : In Canada, the term "residential school" is used with a more specific meaning, i. e. to designate a government-supported boarding school for Indigenous children.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
DEF

École où les élèves sont logés et nourris durant la période scolaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
DEF

Establecimiento donde viven alumnos [...]

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Record 3 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Indigenous Sociology
CONT

In Canada, survivors, scholars, and the Truth and Reconciliation commissioners have described the residential school system as a form of "cultural genocide."

OBS

Aboriginal residential school system : While "Aboriginal" was once deemed an appropriate way to refer to Indigenous matters, it has been replaced by "Indigenous. "

OBS

Indian residential school system: This term should only be used when it is part of a proper name or title (like the Healing Heritage: New Approaches to Commemorating Canada’s Indian Residential School System), when quoting from a source that contains the term (e.g., a historical source), or when specifically describing or discussing this term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
  • Droit autochtone
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
CONT

Le système des pensionnats autochtones a existé de 1883 à 1996. Plus de 150 000 jeunes y ont été envoyés de force pour «tuer l'Indien dans l'enfant», arrachés à leur famille, coupés de leur langue et de leurs traditions ancestrales.

OBS

régime des pensionnats indiens; système des pensionnats indiens : Ces termes tendent à être remplacés par «régime des pensionnats autochtones» ou «système des pensionnats autochtones». Les termes «régime des pensionnats indiens» et «système des pensionnats indiens» devraient uniquement être utilisés dans les citations (p. ex. passages tirés de sources historiques), dans les cas où l'on emploie une appellation officielle dont ils font partie, ou lorsque le but est d'en faire une description ou une analyse.

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Indigenous Sociology
CONT

Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro‑Canadian culture. … the schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples. The last residential school closed in 1996.

OBS

Aboriginal residential school : In the Canadian government, to align with international usage, the term "Indigenous" should be used instead of "Aboriginal" to refer to First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

OBS

Indian residential school: This term should only be used when it is part of a proper name or title (like the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement), when quoting from a source that contains the term (e.g., a historical source), or when specifically describing or discussing this term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
  • Droit autochtone
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
CONT

En tout, on estime à 150 000 le nombre d'enfants des Premières Nations, des Inuits et des Métis qui auraient fréquenté les pensionnats.

OBS

pensionnat indien : Ce terme tend à être remplacé par «pensionnat pour Autochtones» et «pensionnat autochtone». Le terme «pensionnat indien» devrait uniquement être utilisé dans les citations (p. ex. passages tirés de sources historiques), dans les cas où l'on emploie une appellation officielle dont il fait partie (comme la Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens) ou lorsque le but est d'en faire une description ou une analyse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
  • Derecho indígena
  • Sociología indígena
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Record 5 2022-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Indigenous Peoples (General)
OBS

The Legacy of Hope Foundation(LHF) is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and reconciliation in Canada for more than 19 years. The LHF's goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential School System(RSS) and subsequent Sixties Scoop(SS) on Indigenous(First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote healing and reconciliation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Peuples Autochtones (Généralités)
OBS

La Fondation autochtone de l'espoir (FAE) est un organisme de bienfaisance national dirigé par des Autochtones qui œuvre à la promotion de la guérison et de la réconciliation au Canada depuis plus de 19 ans. L'objectif de la FAE est d'éduquer et de sensibiliser à l'histoire et aux impacts intergénérationnels existants du Système des pensionnats indiens et de la Rafle des années 60 […] sur les survivants autochtones (Premières Nations, Inuits et métis), leurs descendants et leurs communautés pour promouvoir la guérison et la réconciliation.

Spanish

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Record 6 2022-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
CONT

All who are baptized, except those who profess to a religious state or receive Holy Orders, comprise the lay faithful. The lay faithful are considered unique because their mission is accomplished by living in the midst of the secular world, meaning they do not merely belong to the Church but are the Church in the midst of everyday living.

CONT

[There is] a commitment to ensure residential school documents are made available to survivors, and ongoing work to provide education for [the] clergy, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful, on Indigenous cultures and spirituality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
CONT

[Il existe un engagement] à faire en sorte que les documents relatifs aux pensionnats soient mis à la disposition des survivants et en poursuivant nos efforts pour former notre clergé, nos hommes et femmes consacrés et nos fidèles laïcs aux cultures et à la spiritualité autochtones.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Religión (Generalidades)
CONT

Son fieles laicos todos los cristianos a excepción de los miembros del orden sacerdotal y los que pertenecen al estado religioso.

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Record 7 2022-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

... a particular set of courses that a school or governing body designates ...

CONT

A day before Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Ontario government announced changes to the school curriculum, committing to strengthening Indigenous learning in Grades 1 to 3 in the next two years, including an introduction to the residential school system.

CONT

In its 2008 report, Shaping a Culture of Respect in Our Schools: Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships, the Safe Schools Action Team confirmed "that the most effective way to enable all students to learn about healthy and respectful relationships is through the school curriculum" ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

Le passage au secondaire constitue une étape importante du cursus scolaire au cours de laquelle la plupart des élèves s'interrogent sérieusement sur leur orientation scolaire et professionnelle.

Spanish

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Record 8 2018-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Indigenous Sociology
OBS

The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund(DWF) is part of Gord Downie's legacy and embodies his commitment, and that of both the Downie and Wenjack families, to call Canadians to learning and action in solidarity with Indigenous peoples of this land. The goal of the fund is to continue the conversation that began with Chanie Wenjack's residential school story, and to support the reconciliation process through awareness, education, and action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Sociologie des Autochtones

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales canadienses
  • Sociología indígena
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