Ghosts of another world: voices from the non-Indigenous descendents of former Canadian residential school staff

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dc.contributor.authorHaiste, Kimberly
dc.contributor.supervisorThomas, Qwul'sih'yah'maht Robina Anne
dc.contributor.supervisorBrown, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-04T22:20:18Z
dc.date.available2013-04-04T22:20:18Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-04-04
dc.degree.departmentProgram: Dispute Resolutionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractBased on Prime Minister Harper’s 2008 Apology for the Indian Residential School (IRS) system, this thesis addresses the need to confront the intergenerational legacy of this system on non-Indigenous Canadians in order to challenge our ability to actually ‘journey together’ with Indigenous Survivors. Aiming to break the silence that has surrounded this legacy, the voices of non-Indigenous descendents of former staff, as well as my own as a non-Indigenous Canadian, expose personal experiences of the lived reality of the IRS legacy. Working from a narrative methodology from within a decolonizing framework, this research includes interviews with two descendents of former staff, as well as an auto-ethnography of myself, as researcher, to capture the lived experiences with relation to this legacy. Results from this introductory work illustrate a variety of themes needing to be acknowledged, and deals with notions of opening dialogue, violence, guilt and responsibility within the context of the IRS system.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0334en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0626en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0630en_US
dc.description.proquestemailkhaiste@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4509
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectIndian Residential Schoolsen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectNon-Indigenous Canadiansen_US
dc.subjectIntergenerational Legacyen_US
dc.titleGhosts of another world: voices from the non-Indigenous descendents of former Canadian residential school staffen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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