Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School and Andrew Woolford, eds., Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School

Abstract

Historians will appreciate Stevenson's skilled critical analysis of archival and policy documents. Historians of childhood and youth will be interested in understanding how racialized, gender, and class policies undermined Indigenous kinship networks, disrupting the relationships between young people and their First Nations and Métis families, communities, and identities. For historians of education, this study demonstrates how colonized institutions work in combination to assimilate or eliminate Indigenous peoples. Historians of education need to assist teachers in understanding how they, like social workers, play a significant if unintended role in the intimate integration of Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian ways of life, thus eliminating "Indigenous subjectivities, kinship, and nations" (34).