WELCOME

The IRSSS’s Education Project was created to help educators teach their students about Indian Residential Schools by developing accurate, balanced, and engaging lesson plans and resources  to supplement Social Studies and other course curriculums.

Our Goals:

• Create awareness among all people of the cultural & societal damage to First Nations people due to forced attendence at Residential Schools and the inter generational impacts still felt today by their families and communities.

• Explore how colonialism and its goal of assimilating aboriginal peoples into society is not just a Canadian phenomenon, but virtually world-wide.

• Discuss the roles and intentions of  Churches & Governments in creating Residential Schools, good & bad, and the apathy of the general population in allowing these policies and institutions to exsist for so long.

• Learn about the steps that governments and churches are taking to address the IRS legacy through apologies, inquiries, financial compensation to survivors, Public Education Initiatives, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and more.

• Discover ’modern’ & traditional methods used by survivors in their personal, family, and community healing and challenge students to articulate what they as individuals can do to help foster forgiveness and reconciliation between people.