The goal of this project is to produce a travelling exhibit and website. The content for the exhibit and website will mostly come from interviews with residential school, hostel, and Indian day school survivors. We are planning to interview approximately twelve survivors about their experiences of recreation while at school. We are approaching people of different cultural backgrounds from different regions who attended different residential schools in the NWT. We are also working to have a balance of women and men, and people of different ages. In addition to interviewing survivors, we are reviewing historical documents including photographs and reports from residential schools, hostels, and Indian day schools across the territory.

The interviews and historical research will help us to understand how recreation was a part of the residential school, hostel, and Indian day school experience, as well as the significance of recreation for residential school, hostel, and Indian day school students. We understand recreation to include a variety of creative, physical, social, and intellectual activities including, but not limited to, music, the arts, sports, games, crafts, reading, and Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.