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Pulitzer Center Update
Suicide Strikes Canada's First Nation Tribes
Daniella Zalcman and Guillaume Saladin reflect on the suicide epidemic of Canada's First Nations and...
April 21, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
News Bites and Lesson Plan of the Week: School and Identity
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
March 31, 2016 -
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Portraits of Trauma
Can the wounds of cultural genocide be healed?
February 23, 2016 -
Lesson Plans
School and Identity: Using Multimedia to Examine the Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Through project-based learning, discussion, and reading, students examine the impact of Canadian Indian residential schools and the relationship between school environment and personal identify.
![Mike Pinay](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-30-16/mike_pinay.jpg.webp?h=8bf96674&itok=4jm8HmAJ "For her project "Signs of Your Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against the former residential schools they once attended in Saskatchewan. In 2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school system, which a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide" last year. "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/02-26-16/maurice_tomlinson.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=QV6k9r1n "Maurice Tomlinson (left) and Simone Edwards (right) at Movies that Matter Film Festival. Tomlinson and Edwards are the two main characters in "The Abominable Crime." Image by Micah Fink. The Netherlands. 2015.")
