Featured Resources
- Colonialism, History, and Impacts: Indian Residential Schools (Angela White, UBC)Workshop slides examine how Canadian residential school policies affected residential school survivors directly and also the generations that followed.
- Compassionate Canada? Aboriginal Schooling Resource Kit (SFU)Resource kit for teachers.
- Deepening Knowledge: Residential Schools (University of Toronto)Books, Fiction; Books, Non-Fiction; Film & Video; Websites; CD-ROMS; News Articles; Opinion/Blogs.
- Healing Historical Trauma (Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum)Includes workshops (2-3 hours); activities (60 minutes); facilitated conversations; and promotional messages.
- Project of Heart: Hidden Histories (BC Teachers' Federation)Resource book for teachers.
- Resources (Project of Heart)Links to Films/Videos; Historical Documents; Maps/Visual Aids; Timelines; Teacher Guides/Lesson Plans; and more.
- Toolkits (Reconciliation Canada)See "Young Adult Voices," a how-to guide for senior high school students to take action for reconciliation within their schools, families, and social networks.
- Residential School Inquiry Lessons and Resources (Comox Valley School District 71)Collected lesson plans and resources for K-12 educators.
- Indian Residential Schools and Reconciliation Resources (First Nations Education Steering Committee)Teacher resource guides for grades 5, 10 and 11/12.
Finding Curriculum Resources at UBC
Search the UBC Catalogue using subject headings. For example:
- Subject begins with: First Nations--Residential schools--Juvenile
- Subject contains: "Residential schools" AND Juvenile
Search the UBC Catalogue for keywords. For example:
- "Residential school?" AND Juvenile
Search Tip: Use quotation marks to search for a phrase (e.g. "First Nations"). Use a question mark to truncate a term to search for words with the same stem (e.g. School? retrieves School, Schools, Schooling, etc.).
Search the UBC Catalogue
TIP: If you limit your search to Location: X̱wi7x̱wa Library, you do not need to use keywords like "Indigenous" because our collection centres Indigenous scholarship and perspectives.