Gerry enjoys sharing his thoughts, stories and knowledge through a wide variety of media such as podcast interviews, books and online print publications, television media and more.
Media
Saa Hiil Thut, Kamloops residential school survivor speaks out, Global News (2021) [Link]
Elder Gerry Oleman on Education, short video (2012) [Link]
Elder Gerry Oleman on Colonization, short video (2012) [Link]
Elder Gerry Oleman on Residential School, short video (2012) [Link]
Oleman, G. (2012) Public address. The Impacts of Colonization on Me, My Family, My Community and Healing the Impacts of Colonization. UBC Learning Circle video conference recording.[Link]
Oleman, G. (2012) Storyteller. Wild salmon oral testimony. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2012) Elder. Going home. Short film produced for youth by ReelYouth on youth, wellness and respect. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2011) Master of Ceremonies. A dialogue on the history and legacy of the Indian residential schools. University of British Columbia. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2010) Finding Your Gifts. A short motivational film for aboriginal post-secondary students in British Columbia. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2010) Contributor. “The Spirit Has No Colour: Changing Police/Aboriginal Relationships”, a film account of the interconnectedness of the police with Aboriginal history and the impact on relationships between the two groups.
Gerry Oleman, History of Canada. Video by Naomi Peterson (2009) [Link]
Oleman, G. (2009) Indigenous Worldviews on Truth & Reconciliation. Interfaith Summer Institute (ISI) at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2009) Interviewee. Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili’s feature-length documentary film, “Finding Our Way”. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2008) Aboriginal Healing and Culture in Prisons. Collaborative Canadian Prison-Academic-Community Health and Education Conference, University of British Columbia. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2002) Narrator. Film by Gibbons, R. and Thomas, D. - Century of Genocide in the Americas: The residential school experience. Prize-winning documentary. [Link]
Publications
Books
Oleman, G. (2010) Gerry Oldman Chapter 79. Active Spirit, Active History. Published by First Nations Health Council.
Oleman, G. (2003) Walking the healing road: a journey for survivors of the residential school experience, from survival to facilitating healing in yourself, your family, and your community.
Articles and Interviews
Saa Hiil Thut (2020) S-kee-ax, He is Going Crazy, Covid19 issue of Visions Journal, 16 (2), pp. 19-23. [Link]
How Gerry Oldman forgave and fought his way to freedom, written by Emilee Gilpin for Canada's National Observer, August 2020. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2012) Identification of an Indigenous wooden figure at The British Museum. [Link]
Oleman, G. (2011) Reanimating Storywork: Indigenous Elders' Reflections on Leadership by Gerry Oleman. [Link]
Oleman, G. (1999) Healing for the First Nations of Canada. Indigenous Links. Published in London, England.
Contribution/Impact on Scholarship
Carriere, J. and Richardson, C. (2013). Relationship is everything: Holistic approaches to aboriginal child and youth mental health. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 7(2), 8-26.
MacLachlan, A. (2013). Government apologies to Indigenous peoples. In Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict (pp. 183-203). Springer Netherlands.
Natcher, D. C., Walker, R. C., & Jojola, T. S. (2013). Reclaiming Indigenous planning.
Chaillier, G. (2012). Boarding and residential school experiences in film. American Indians and Popular Culture, 1, 117.
Raby, R. (2012). Child and youth care: critical perspectives on pedagogy, practice, and policy. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 3(2-3), 349-354.
Newbury, J. (2011). Contextualizing care: Generating alternatives to the individualization of struggles and support by considering loss. Child and youth care: Critical perspectives on pedagogy, practice and policy, 158-178.
Richardson, C. (2010). A word is worth a thousand pictures: Counselling with Metis and First Nations women, in Feminist counselling: Theory, issues, and practice. Ed. L.R. Ross, Toronto: Women's Press.
Iversen, L. B. (2009). Ancestral blueprints: Revealing invisible truths in America's soul. Bellingham, WA: Family Constellations West.
Rolfson, C. (2008). After the apology. This Magazine, Sept/Oct.
Smith, A. (2006). Boarding school abuses, human rights and reparations. Journal of Religion & Abuse, 8(2), 5-21.
Young, A. E. (2006). Elders’ Teachings on Indigenous Leadership: Leadership is a Gift (Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia).
Doherty, M.M.S. (Spring 2005). Healing: Traditional Teachings. Bloodlines, Red Road HIV/AIDS Network Society, 20-23.
Arato-Bolltvar, J. (2004). In their own words. (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia).
Smith, A. (2004). Boarding school abuses, human rights, and reparations. Social Justice, 31(4 (98), 89-102.
Smith, A. (2003). Soul wound: The legacy of Native American schools. Amnesty Now, 14-17.