The following are Own Voice resources that support learning about Canadian Residential Schools and support the Every Child Matters response.
Where are the Children? A interactive website with curated stories, artifacts and timelines about the Residential School system in Canada. Click here
Gitxsan Artist, Michelle Stoney, posts her drawing, Feather, with an explanation of its design and permission to print and colour. Please do not reproduce for any monetary gain. Click here
Twitter post by Anne Tenning, Member of the Stz’uminus First Nation and District Principal of Indigenous Education in SD83. This post is written to those directly impacted by the Residential School system and has substantial merit for those who are not. Click here
N’we Jinan Artists Video We Won’t Forget You Written, recorded and filmed by students from the Sk’elep School of Excellence in Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, Kamloops, British Columbia. Click here
Indian Residential Schools Survivors Society website provides Orange Shirt Day information as well as a mission, mandate and guiding principles that could be used in meaningful lessons and a call to action. Click here
Please connect with Surrey Schools Teacher Librarian Helping Teacher, Andrea LaPointe, via email [email protected], with questions or to suggest additions.
