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Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School

Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School http :// moa.ubc.ca/experience/exhibit_details.php?id=1209 What lessons can be drawn from understanding the significance of this history?

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Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School

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  1. Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School • http://moa.ubc.ca/experience/exhibit_details.php?id=1209 • What lessons can be drawn from understanding the significance of this history? • What policies and practices characterized the residential schooling experience? • What is the legacy of residential schooling for Aboriginal people and Canadian society? • What appropriate resources and texts can be used in the classroom to support teaching about residential schools? • What are respectful and sensitive approaches/strategies to using these texts in classrooms?

  2. Witnessing • Both honor & responsibility • Connected to oral history & collective memory • Multiply perspectives • How is the Indian Residential School system connected to the present • How might this experience be relevant to you, to your practice?

  3. REFLECTIONS ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES: Watch the you tube animation ‘AbuelaGrillo’ about the uprising of the people of Cochabamba in Bolivia against water privatization. The animation is based on a Ayoreo (indigenous) narrative about a cricket grandmother whose singing produces water. The grandmother can be seen as a metaphor for the metaphysical forces/spirits behind natural phenomena (represented, in this case, in human form). As you watch the film, think about: • How does the grandmother establish her relations? • What happens when the grandmother starts to be exploited? • What are the central protagonists of the story? • How would the story of the uprising be different if told from a Western perspective? • What can we learn from the telling of the story from anAyoreoperspective that we would not be able to learn through a Western narrative? • What are the educational implications of these different modes of telling stories? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMM7vM7aiNI

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