The Native Education Centre: its impact on cultural identity and educational outcomes ...

• Main Author: Mirehouse, V. Grace
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0064476; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0064476

Few, if any accounts of First Nation history and their struggles with aboriginal land questions and rights focus on the “creative political vitality of the Indian peoples of British Columbia” (Tennant, 1990). Instead, researchers usually regard aboriginals as objects of history. First Nations’ school experiences and the negative outcomes have also generally been biased toward the notion that First Nations have and continue to be victims of colonization and a “superior” people who have and continue to oppress them. This study examined the contexts and reasons First Nations graduates gave for choosing to attend a First Nations specific institution and recounted their school experiences in relationship to First Nations culture, identity and educational and career outcomes. The process of research involved working with a research team that developed a survey questionnaire and utilized the focus group method. The participants of the study were the students who were enrolled in one of the six Skills Training ...