"Don't Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools

• Main Author: Milosz, Magdalena
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2015
• Subjects: Architecture; Architectural History; Indian Residential Schools; Roland Guerney Orr; Canadian Government; Indian Affairs; Department of Indian Affairs; Ontario; Manitoba; Mohawk Institute; Brantford; Birtle; Brandon; Shingwauk; Sault Ste. Marie; Total Institutions; Genocide; Indigenous Peoples; Anishinaabe; Saulteaux; Mohawk; Six Nations; IRS; Algoma University; Canada; Indian; Roland; anishina*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9066

The Indian Residential School (IRS) system in Canada directly affected 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken to state-sponsored and church-run institutions to separate them from their families and cultures. During the century and a half leading up to around 1970, over 130 IRS were scattered thr...