By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School, written by settler-Anishinaabe historian Dr. Jackson Pind, is a powerful offering of Two-Eyed Seeing, a methodology that mixes Indigenous knowledge with Western practices. Pind uses oral Indigenous history and western archival analysis to chronicle the lesser-known story of Indian day schools, centering life at the Curve Lake Indian Day School, which operated from 1899 to 1978. Almost 1,400 Indian day schools were located on First Nations reserves throughout Canada from the mid-1800s until 2000 with approximately 200,000 Indigenous children forced to attend. “Adding in the oral history after you’ve looked at the archive, I think, is a good route to go,” said Pind, currently an assistant professor, Indigenous methodologies…
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