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August 31, 2021

Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013): Indian Agents & Forced Assimilation

55 minutes

Jeff Barnaby rocked our world again and educated us about the horrors indigenous people face in Canada. It follows the story of teenager Aila as she navigates a complicated native world that is actively being “reformed.” Traumas include accidental deaths, suicide, incarceration, Indian agents, and forced residential school abuses.

Sources in our Episode:

Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ and the Legacy of Residential Schools

Muskrat Magazine

Unsettling the Settler Within Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling and Reconciliation

Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Indigenous Foundations

Canada’s Grim Legacy of Cultural Erasure, in Poignant School Photos

Ways to help:

Indigenous Works

National Voice for Communities in the Canadian Arctic

Native Land Disclaimer

Assembly of First Nations