Queen’s Harbour: First Nations Education, 1860-1970 ...

• Main Author: Face To Face Media
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: University of Victoria Libraries 2022
• Subjects: Education; Lil'wat Nation; Pascal, Clarissa; Pascal, Alida; Off-reservation boarding schools; St’át’imc Nation; Racism in education; Tzuriel, David; Indigenous peoples > Education; Indigenous peoples; Lorna; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.58066/s3hj-nm97; http://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/8f91df04-c6b5-411f-b3d5-5603d5650a49

Production material relates to a short documentary entitled “First Nations Education, 1860-1970” for the Vancouver School Board’s Queen's Harbour Institute project, a multi-day series of workshops and discussions on current issues in education centred around the fictional Queen’s Harbour School Board. The documentary focuses on the history of education and education policy as it has impacted Indigenous peoples in British Columbia. It centres around a presentation given by Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams in Cowichan Bay as part of the Queen’s Harbour project interspersed with archival photographs and moving image material, as well as material also used in "The Mind of a Child” documentary. Part of the original recording of Wanosts’a7’s presentation is also included. Wanosts’a7 is referred to as Agnes Thomas at various points in the presentation. This is likely related to the format of the Queen's Harbour project for which the documentary was being prepared. The presentation runs from 10:34 on tape VR92, and ...