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- Title
Off to School: Filmic False Equivalence and Indian Residential School Scholarship.
- Authors
Griffith, Jane
- Abstract
This paper uses two short, mid-twentieth century documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada as an entry point into charting popular and scholarly representations of Indian residential schools. The article begins with a close reading of one 1958 film followed by an overview of how scholarship has changed over the last fifty years, particularly alongside and sometimes because of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The article advocates centring survivor testimony and provides major turns in considering as well as teaching about residential schooling and settler colonialism in Canada. The article concludes with a close reading of a second film, produced in 1971 by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, which offers a decidedly different perspective from the film discussed at the beginning of the article.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Film Board of Canada; IMPERIALISM &; motion pictures
- Publication
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'Histoire de l'Éducation, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0843-5057
- Publication type
Article