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File Hills Colony
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Dates of existence
ca.1898–19?
History
Established by the local Indian Agent (W.M. Graham), on Peepeekisis Reserve lands, the File Hills Colony was set up to be a farming colony that would continue the assimilation of Indigenous graduates of Industrial (Residential) Schools.
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Peepeekisis First Nation [reserve], File Hills Agency, Treaty Number 4.
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SCNUCSC
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Draft
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Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2022: drafted by UCC Living Skies Region Archives
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
File Hills Colony: A Failed Experiment, in Shattering the Silence: The Hidden History of Residential Schools in Saskatchewan, University of Regina (https://www2.uregina.ca/education/saskindianresidentialschools/), accessed Nov.2022.
File Hills Indian Residential School, on The Children Remembered, United Church of Canada (http://thechildrenremembered.ca/).
Ottawa apology for colony scheme a step toward mending divide in Peepeekisis Cree Nation, CBC News, Aug 06, 2022 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/file-hills-colony-scheme-apology-peepeekisis-cree-nation-divide-1.6541570), accessed Nov. 2022.
C. Drew Bednasek, Remembering the File Hills Farm Colony, Historical Geography Volume 37 (2009): 53-70.