Research Fridays @ Intersections of Gender - Indian Residential Schooling Histories During an Era of Truth and Reconciliation

 
Research Fridays @ Intersections of Gender presentsIndian Residential Schooling Histories During an Era of Truth and Reconciliation with Crystal Gail Fraser, moderated by Nat Hurley, on December 3 @ 12:15 P.M. MDT. 

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Given the growing death toll of Indigenous children at Indian Residential Schools in what is now known as Canada, Crystal Gail Fraser (History/Native Studies) has visited the Provincial Archives of Alberta weekly to better understand the death toll of students at Alberta residential schools. This presentation will be sharing work in progress.

Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà Gwich'in and originally from Inuvik and Dachan Choo Gę̀hnjik, Northwest Territories. Her PhD research focused on the history of student experiences at Indian Residential Schools in the Inuvik Region between 1959 and 1996. Crystal's work makes a strong contribution to how scholars engage with Indigenous research methodologies and theoretical concepts, our understanding of Indigenous histories during the second half of the twentieth century, and how northern Canada was unique in relation to the rest of the settler nation. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2020 John Bullen Prize by the Canadian Historical Association for her thesis, titled T’aih k’ìighe’ tth’aih zhit dìidìch’ùh or By Strength We Are Still Here. The prize honours the outstanding PhD thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university. Crystal is committed to service contributions through her work with the Faculty of Arts Committee for EDI, the Governing Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and Gwich'in Council International Board. With her partner and young daughter, Crystal has lived on Treaty 6/Homeland of the Métis Nation since 2004.