My latest post, "Learning About Residential Schools At The Shingwauk Site" can be found over at Activehistory.ca. This post looks at the ways interpretation and public programming has changed at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and Shingwauk historic site since 2010.
Tours of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Residential Schools Site
The third peice I wrote last year for Canada's History is now up on their re-designed website. My piece on "Tours of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Residential Schools Site" talks briefly about the history of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Indian Residential Schools, the range of historic site tours provided by the Shingwauk Indian Residential School, … Continue reading Tours of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Residential Schools Site
Facing the Past
The August/September issue of Canada's History magazine contains a short piece I wrote about the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre's Remember the Children Photo Identification Project. This project aims to help connect survivors, families, and communities with residential school photographs. It also strives to identify the unnamed students pictured in so many residential school photographs. This … Continue reading Facing the Past
Re-writing Wikipedia
As I mentioned earlier the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) is currently hosting "“A Lifetime – Day by Day, Five Women and Their Diaries”the travelling exhibit from the Archives of Ontario and a locally curated companion exhibit "Indigenous Women Rebuilding A Nation." As part of the the Indigenous Women Rebuilding A Nation exhibit the SRSC … Continue reading Re-writing Wikipedia
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