La Fondation Autochtone de Guérison (FAdG) est un organisme à but non-lucratif, d'envergure nationale et dont la gestion est autochtone, La FAdG a réservé cette page aux articles et autres documents desituée à Ottawa, établie le 31 mars 1998, à qui une subvention unique de 350 millions de dollars a été allouée par le gouvernement fédéral du Canada selon les recommandations du Rassembler nos forces – Plan d’action autochtone du Canada. Un mandat d’une durée de onze ans, se terminant le 31 mars 2009, a été confié à la Fondation autochtone de guérison dans le but d’encourager et d’appuyer, à l’aide de contributions financières et de recherches, des initiatives de guérison communautaires conçues et réalisées par les Autochtones, celles-ci visent le traitement des séquelles des abus physiques et sexuels subis sous le régime des pensionnats indiens au Canada, y compris les répercussions intergénérationnelles. La vision de la FAdG, c'est que les Autochtones auront, de manière significative, traité les effets de mauvais traitements subis dans les pensionnats et ils auront rétabli un plus grand bien-être pour eux-mêmes et les descendants des sept générations futures. Ce lien mène à une section du siteweb de la FAdG réservé pour des articles et autres documents de référence se rapportant au sujet des pensionnats. Il contient: un répertoire des pensionnats au Canada,un repéertoire des sources de finanement pour les activités de guérison communautire et, finalement, un répertoire de tous les documents publiés par la FAdG lesquels traitent aux aspèts divers des séquelles et comprisent des rapports officiells, oeuvres littéraires et disques CD, entre autres.

Honour Water is a singing game for healing water featuring songs in Anishinaabemowin by Sharon Day, the Oshkii Giizhik Singers, and elders at the Oshkii Giizhik Gathering with design, art, and writing by Elizabeth LaPensée.

Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can’t be her daughter. “Not my girl!” she says angrily. Margaret’s years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can’t even stomach her mother’s food. Her only comfort is in the books she learned to read at school. Gradually, Margaret relearns the words and ways of her people. With time, she earns her father’s trust enough to be given a dogsled of her own. As her family watches with pride, Margaret knows she has found her place once more. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight. A poignant story of a determined young girl’s struggle to belong. It will both move and inspire readers everywhere. Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection, Canadian Children’s Book CentreStorytelling World AwardUSBBY Outstanding International Books Honor ListEric Hoffer Award, Honorable MentionSkipping Stones Honor Awardda Vinci Eye Award finalistInformation Book Award finalist, *ChildrenChocolate Lily Award finalist, B.C. Young Reader’s Choice

As the pain and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, his life spirals out of control. Haunted by guilt, he is unable to maintain a relationship with Lauren and their son Edwin. Edwin, mired in his own pain, tries to navigate past the desolation of his fatherless childhood. As James tries to heal himself he begins to realize that, somehow, he may save his son’s life – as well as his own. When father and son finally meet, can they heal their shattered relationship, and themselves, or will it be too late? The Pact is the final book in the 7 Generations series.

Misty Lake: A Play is co-written by Dale Lakevold and Darrell Racine about residential school experiences. The main characters in the drama are Patty, 25-year-old Métis journalist, and Mary, a 43-year-old Dene woman, who survived her residential school experiences. Their connections bring up distant and painful memories of childhood and broken families, but they also bring forth laughter amid the tears. Each character finds her way back from the pain to begin a path of healing. The play is based on the lived experiences of Elizabeth Samuel who attended Guy Hill Indian Residential School in The Pas, Manitoba. The 82-page book contains an afterword from Darrell Racine, excerpts from his interview with Elizabeth Samuel, notes about the 4 characters, and photographs of Guy Hill Residential School. It was first performed in 1999. This is the fourth edition of this title.

Cet ouvrage est un recueil d'articles et de réflexions succinctes provenant de plus de trente collaborateurs ayant contribué par leurs efforts à instaurer des sociétés justes et englobantes au Canada et à l'étranger. La Commission de vérité et de réconciliation a pour tâche d’aider à ce qu’on s’assure que cette affirmation fera foi d’une même réalité pour l’ensemble des citoyens autochtones au Canada. Crée par la Fondation autochtone de guérison, cet ouvrage est présenté aux Commissaires pour encourager leurs efforts visant d'affirmer la vérité et l'avancement de la réconciliation au bénéfice de tous les peuples au Canada.

Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at a residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve years later, he left school frozen at the emotional age of seven. He was confused, angry and conflicted, on a path of self-destruction. At age 29, he emerged from this blackness. By age 32, he had graduated from the Civil Engineering Program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and begun a journey of self-exploration and healing. In this powerful and poignant memoir, Ted examines the impact of his psychological, emotional and sexual abuse, the loss of his language and culture, and, most important, the loss of his family and community. He goes beyond details of the abuses of Native children to relate a unique understanding of why most residential school survivors have post-traumatic stress disorders and why succeeding generations of First Nations children suffer from this dark chapter in history. Told as remembrances described with insights that have evolved through his healing, his story resonates with his resolve to help himself and other residential school survivors and to share his enduring belief that one can pick up the shattered pieces and use them for good.

For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Indigenous children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the Indian to save the man." Half of the children did not survive the experience, and those who did were left permanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to their own children has led to a social disintegration with results that can only be described as genocidal. "This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the ravages of settler state colonialism or the effects of transgenerational trauma." - -Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor of Law, Georgia State University

Dealing with such as suicide, small pox, sexual abuse, alcoholism, and the nature of residential school life, this is not poetry for the faint of heart. It is a testament to a lost and alienated culture.

This curriculum aims to increase awareness of the residential school system as a major part of the European colonizing effort against Indigenous peoples, resulting in significant intergenerational impacts.