This website advocates for North American and Canadian Indigenous initiatives, rights, and ways of being. It draws from an undergraduate course titled: Stolen Lives: The Indian Boarding School. Our work is driven by a deep commitment to historical truth, cultural sensitivity, and a desire to contribute to meaningful change by allying with Indigenous communities, and acquiring and sharing new knowledge. We explore complex subjects including Indigenous child displacement and historical trauma by employing archival and arts-based research methods and engaging with storytelling in a variety of oral and artistic expressions and forms.
Learn more about the background picture
The background picture of the homepage is a drawing by a student of Algoma University in Sault St. Marie, Canada. It is displayed as a mural in the library of the university. It depicts the idea of intergenerational love.
Timelines
These timelines explore a variety of themes in a historical context.
Resources that guided and influenced our research.
Decoloniality
Learn more about what decolonialty means and how it plays out in institutions as well as daily life.
The Course
More information about arts based research, community engaged learning, and reflections from Professor Mykoff as well as students.
Stolen Lives 