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By Strength, We Are Still Here - by Crystal Gail Fraser

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  • The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwich'in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children.
  • Author(s): Crystal Gail Fraser
  • 384 Pages
  • History, Native American

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In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Gwich'in concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, Fraser shows how both students and their parents played a role in changing the system to protect and empower their communities.



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The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North

In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwich'in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children.

After 1945, federal bureaucrats and politicians increasingly sought to assimilate Indigenous northerners--who had remained comparatively outside of their control--into broader Canadian society through policies that were designed to destroy Indigenous ways of life. Foremost among these was an aggressive new schooling policy that mandated the construction of Grollier and Stringer Halls: massive residential schools that opened in Inuvik in 1959, eleven years after a special joint committee of the House of Commons and the Senate recommended that all residential schools in Canada be closed.

By Strength, We Are Still Here shares the lived experiences of Indigenous northerners from 1959 until 1982, when the territorial government published a comprehensive plan for educational reform. Led by Survivor testimony, Fraser shows the roles both students and their families played in disrupting state agendas, including questioning and changing the system to protect their cultures and communities.

Centring the expertise of Knowledge Keepers, By Strength, We Are Still Here makes a crucial contribution to Indigenous research methodologies and to understandings of Canadian and Indigenous histories during the second half of the twentieth century.



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"Fraser's work succeeds in bringing a humanizing sensibility to historical processes in conscious alignment with Dian Million's notion of a felt archive. This book is a sweeping indictment of Canada's education policies in the North and stands as a refutation of the paternalistic assumption that Northern Indigenous communities should not, or could not, direct their own children's education. Crystal Fraser's voice is an important one."

--Alexandra Giancarlo "JACANZS"
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .86 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.24 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Native American
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Crystal Gail Fraser
Language: English
Street Date: December 13, 2024
TCIN: 94278862
UPC: 9781772840940
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-3373
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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