And Now We Rise (VIDEO)
This 2018 website features a documentary film introducing a portrait of Samuel Johns, a young Athabaskan hip hop artist, and founder of the Forget Me Not Facebook Group, which connects homeless, far flung family members, and displaced people in Alaska, and the United States. Samuel is an activist for a cultural renaissance, as he heals from his own legacy of historical trauma. The producer states, "the general public needs to understand the impact historical trauma has had on our indigenous people, and how they are becoming involved and becoming the change. The change is brewing, and it’s hopeful."
And Our Mothers Cried - U.S. Boarding School (VIDEO)
For several generations of Native American children, including Chickasaws, the reality of the late 19th and early 20th centuries meant separation from their families and indoctrination into a culture that wasn’t their own. This was the boarding school era, with the infamous slogan, "Kill the Indian. Save the Man." Children were sent to distant boarding schools to learn skills that would assimilate them into white culture. The schools emphasized labor-intensive trades and a basic education focused on English, with most students prohibited from speaking their native language. Separation from family and community supported the goal to erase their way of life. In this documentary, you’ll meet some of the Chickasaws who lived through the boarding school era. Now tribal elders, they say the boarding school experience was filled with unforgettable moments – some good and some they wish they could forget.
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories is the updated installation of the long-running Boarding School exhibition at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Since opening in 2000, 'Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience', has become the Heard Museum’s most thematically powerful exhibition. Over the past two decades, interest in American Indian boarding schools and scholarship about the subject has increased. The initial embedded video entitled, "What is Education?", focuses on how American Indian Boarding Schools have had longstanding ill-effects on Native American Indian Education.
Canandian Residential School Survivor Talks About the Electric Chair at St. Anne's Residential School (VIDEO)
In this 2018 video, St. Anne’s Residential School survivor, Chris Metatawabin, talks about his experiences from 1960 to 1968 at the notorious school that had an electric chair.
Indian Boarding School Plan: U.S. Government and Christians (VIDEO)
This 2008 video features the plan for American Indian Boarding Schools as the US Government, and Christians, develop a joint plan to rob Indian children of their culture. "Missionaries are soldiers in disguise."
Indian Education: Assimilation, Segregation or Extermination? The Carlisle School U.S. ( Part Two Video)
This 2017 video features Part 2 of a Power Point presentation on American Indian History coursework featuring the Carlisle Indian Boarding School.
Indian Education: Assimilation, Segregation, or Extermination? Carlisle PA U.S. (Part One VIDEO)
This March 21, 2017 video follows an educational Power Point presentation of American Indian coursework regarding American Indian Education, History and Boarding Schools.
Indian School Whisperer, Dave Archambault, Sr. (VIDEO)
In this 2013 video, Dave Archambault, Sr., states that existing and past schooling policies of the U.S. government are effectively genocide; wasting the customs and beliefs of First Americans. Born on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Dave Leon Archambault received the Lakota name, 'Itazipo Wakinyan' meaning Thunder Bow. He holds a Masters Degree in Education Administration from Penn State University. Mr. Archambault has worked as an educator, an administrator, and a consultant at Indian schools and tribal colleges throughout his career.
It Was Bad, or It Was Good: Alaska Natives in Past Boarding Schools
In this 2008, Volume 47, Issue 3, of the Journal of American Indian Education, author Diane Hirsberg shares boarding school experiences collected from over 60 former Native American Alaskan Indians who attended boarding schools, or participated in an urban boarding home program run by either the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), private churches or the State of Alaska. Taken from rural communities that lacked either primary or secondary schools, former boarding school students' experiences reveal a glimpse of both the positive and negative effects of past boarding schools. Many spoke with ambivalence about their boarding school experience, finding both good and bad elements. This article presents some of the findings of this study.
KUPER ISLAND ~ Canadian Residential School Survivors Documentary (Curriculum & Material Grades 5, 10-12) VIDEO
Published in 2013, this documentary, 'KUPER ISLAND: Return to the Healing Circle', Canadian Residential School Survivors provide an in-depth recounting of daily life at Kuper Island, which is a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. They called it Alcatraz. For almost a century, hundreds of Coast Salish children were sent to Kuper Island, where they were forbidden from speaking their native language, forced to deny their cultural heritage, and often faced physical and sexual abuse. Some died trying to escape on logs across the water. Many more died later, trying to escape their memories. In the past, British Columbia students did not typically learn about residential schools until Grade 11 social studies. Currently, curriculum material is available for Grades 5, 10, 11 and 12.
Montana Mosaic: Native American Indian Boarding Schools (VIDEO)
This 2006 video features 'Montana Mosaic: Indian Boarding Schools', directed by Gita Saedi Kiely. The motto, "Kill the Indian, save the man.", created by Captain Henry Pratt sums up the American government's Native American Indian policy during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Recounting the Horrors of St. Anne's Residential School - Canada (VIDEO)
In this 2018 video, St. Anne's Residential School, located in Canada, survivor Leo Ashamock describes the abuse he experienced at the notorious residential school at Fort Albany First Nation in northeastern Ontario, and the fear of being put in an electric chair.
Tribal Leaders Speak: The State of Indian Education (2010)
This 2010 Department of Education report details the consultations with Tribal Leaders in Indian Country by the Department of Education, an action which had never occurred before. The Obama administration committed to serve Native American Indian students better by collaborating with the people who know their students best; tribal leaders. During these consultations, tribal leaders addressed the following: failure to fulfill historic trust responsibilities; the "disconnect" between federal, state, and local government; insufficient funding; stressed the need to recruit and retain highly effective teachers and leaders; their need to collect and analyze student data; the impact of poverty and need for comprehensive student support; and the need for seamless cradle-to-career pipeline.
Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York ( Part 1 of 3) VIDEO
This 2013 video features 'Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York documentary'. Boarding schools in the United States, and Residential schools in Canada, have had a lasting impact on Native American communities. Native American families in Western New York and Ontario continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture.
Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York (Part 2 of 3) VIDEO
This 2013 video features 'Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York' documentary, and is the 2nd part of a 3 part documentary series. Boarding schools in the United States, and Residential schools in Canada have had a lasting impact on Native American communities. Native American families in Western New York and Ontario continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture.
Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York (Part 3 of 3) VIDEO
This 2013 video is Part 3 is the last of a 3-part series of the documentary, 'Unseen Tears Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York'. This 2013 documentary tells the story of Native American Indian Boarding schools in the United States, as well as Residential Schools in Canada. Native American Indian Boarding School survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture. Thus, American Boarding Schools have had a lasting impact on Native American students, families and communities. Native American families in Western New York and Ontario continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute.
Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools (VIDEO)
This 2018 PBS video about Native American Boarding Schools in Utah recounts a dark time in American History and further, takes a moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language.
Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors - Canadian (VIDEO)
Wawahte is an educational documentary based on the book, 'Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors' by Robert P. Wells, first published in 2012. Wawahte tells the story of Canadian Indian Residential Schools from the perspective of three of survivors. This documentary is free to be screened for elementary and high school students states author Robert Wells and producer John Sanfilippo, who are available for screenings and discussions via the Wawahte website.
White Man's Way - Genoa Indian School U.S. (1884 - 1934) [VIDEO]
This July 10, 1986, PBS video features the Genoa Indian School in Genoa, Nebraska which opened in Pawnee Indian Country in 1884. Former Genoa students, teachers and administrators are interviewed in this video offering first-account stories, both good and bad, on what life was like at Genoa Indian School. Further, the video asks the question, What is in store for future Native American Indian generations? The answer includes the restoration of Native Indian culture, history in addition to outer world lessons at Haskell Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas; and language at the UMO 'N HA TA'PASKA School.
