indigenousexploration | AndreaS.’s Site

For this assignment, my group and I had to find a residential school, or a communal problem that indigenous peoples are facing and make a podcast episode about it. My group consisted of Eyden, AJ, and I, and together, we spoke about the struggles and horrible experiences first nations peoples had in the Kamloops Indian Residential School. We included anecdotes and information about the land, bands, culture, problems, and school that we did research on!

Our podcast :

My experiences creating this assignment were 99% positive, and I’m so glad for that! The negative 1% was a problem that we ran into along the way of filming and getting our podcast ready. So close to completion, we had finished recording all our lines, and citing all our sources, but when we played it back, the audio wouldn’t come out of AJ’s laptop. We were worried the audio might not come out in the turn in either, so we went down to the wave but they couldn’t figure it out and told us to come back later. After school, Eyden and I were in volleyball practice when AJ came to the door and told us that someone down at the wave had helped her solve our problem, and I was relieved to hear that. The path we took to completing this project was such; First, we picked out our school, and did research on vital and necessary aspects. Once we had all our links copied into our document, we started to write a script, trying to put as much information as we can. The three of us worked on it together, and separately over the weekend, with finishing up sentences, and doing a bit of heavy editing. Our finished product was around 7 and a half minutes long, with everyone being able to equally share our words. We recorded our script through Audacity and then cut out and reshot parts we felt we needed to redo. Finally done with the shooting process, AJ sent us the file and we embedded it into this blog post, writ our reflections and cited our sources properly.

RESOURCES/CITATIONS:

land/area information:

When did the kamloops indian residential school open – Zoeken. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2022, from When did the kamloops indian residential school open – Search (bing.com)

Wikipedia contributors. (2022, September 30). Kamloops Indian Residential School. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Kamloops Indian Residential School – Wikipedia

Wikipedia contributors. (2022b, October 16). Canadian Indian residential school system. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Canadian Indian residential school system.

Wikipedia contributors. (2022a, September 20). Kamloops. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Kamloops

bands in area information:

what indigenous language is spoken in the Tkâemlúps te Secwépemc – Zoeken. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2022, from what indigenous language is spoken in the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc – Search (bing.com)

indigenous languages information:

school information:

Term Clusters – Gale Power Search

kamloops residential school name – Zoeken. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2022, from kamloops residential school name – Search (bing.com)

anecdotes information:

Young, L. (2021, June 3). What survivors said about life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Global News. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from What survivors said about life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School | Globalnews.ca

Young, L. (2021, June 3). What survivors said about life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Global News. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Survivors of Kamloops residential school share stories about experiences – Kamloops News – Castanet.net

Initiative, T. L. J., & Seeber, E. (2021, July 19). “It wasn’t a school. It was a place to kill the Indian in us”: Survivor of B.C. residential school shares his story. British Columbia. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from Residential school survivor story: ‘It wasn’t a school. It was a place to kill the Indian in us’ | CTV News

extra:

Thelwell, K. (2020b, October 23). Poverty among Canada’s Indigenous Population. The Borgen Project. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://borgenproject.org/canadas-indigenous-population-2/

Residential Schools and their Lasting Impacts — The Rice, K. (2022, July 26). Residential Schools and their Lasting Impacts. The Indigenous Foundation. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/residential-schools-their-lasting-impacts