Did You See Us?

Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-88755-925-9
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation

The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools.

Stitching together memories of arrival at, day-to-day life within, and departure from the school with a socio-historical reconstruction of the school and its position in both Winnipeg and the larger residential school system, Did You See Us? offers a glimpse of Assiniboia that is not available in the archival records. It connects readers with a specific residential school and illustrates that residential schools were often complex spaces where forced assimilation and Indigenous resilience co-existed.

These recollections of Assiniboia at times diverge, but together exhibit Survivor resilience and the strength of the relationships that bond them to this day. The volume captures the troubled history of residential schools. At the same time, it invites the reader to join in a reunion of sorts, entered into through memories and images of students, staff, and neighbours. It is a gathering of diverse knowledges juxtaposed to communicate the complexity of the residential school experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woolford, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dedication
- Land Acknowledgement Statement/ Theodore Fontaine
- Preface / Theodore Fontaine
- Section One: The Residential Years (1958-1967)
- Section Two: The Hostel Years (1967-1973)
- Section Three: Assiniboia and the Archives
- Section Four: Staff Remembrances
- Section Five: Neighbours
- Section Six: Winnipeg Remembers
- Section Seven: Reunion and Remembrance