resdietial schools
Final Report
Residential Schools ‘‘It took 130 years to create this problem. It’s probably going to take us 130 years to undo it.’’ (The Canadian Press) This explaining what Residential Schools did for all these years. In the 19th century the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and care for the country’s aboriginal people. It though that native people best chance for success was to adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. This event was trying to make Aboriginal children talk, dress, think and act like Canadians. Children were the main targets, because it was believed that it would be easier to change a young child as opposed to an adult. At the time, the government and churches believed that residential schooling was the right thing to do for the Aboriginal children to be better and wiser people. ‘‘In order to educate the children properly we must separate them from their families... Some people may say this hard, but if we want to civilize them we must do that.’’(A federal Cabinet Minister, 1883, CBC Learning DVD) Government and churches believed in the movement, due to their intent of educating, assimilating and integrating the Aboriginal people into Canadian society. The system was designed to "kill the Indian in the child." Aboriginal families all across Canada were affected by the Residential Schools system, and still are affected. Children were forced to attend and live year round at these schools. Parents had to accept that their children would no longer be in their care and that they would be looked after by churches and funded by the Canadian government, or face imprisonment. The importance of this issue is that, Residential
Schools had a high impact at the time to destroy the close ties in Aboriginal families and the strong sense of culture in communities. ‘‘Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada... that has not been absorbed unto the body politic...and there is not Indian question
Residential Schools ‘‘It took 130 years to create this problem. It’s probably going to take us 130 years to undo it.’’ (The Canadian Press) This explaining what Residential Schools did for all these years. In the 19th century the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and care for the country’s aboriginal people. It though that native people best chance for success was to adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. This event was trying to make Aboriginal children talk, dress, think and act like Canadians. Children were the main targets, because it was believed that it would be easier to change a young child as opposed to an adult. At the time, the government and churches believed that residential schooling was the right thing to do for the Aboriginal children to be better and wiser people. ‘‘In order to educate the children properly we must separate them from their families... Some people may say this hard, but if we want to civilize them we must do that.’’(A federal Cabinet Minister, 1883, CBC Learning DVD) Government and churches believed in the movement, due to their intent of educating, assimilating and integrating the Aboriginal people into Canadian society. The system was designed to "kill the Indian in the child." Aboriginal families all across Canada were affected by the Residential Schools system, and still are affected. Children were forced to attend and live year round at these schools. Parents had to accept that their children would no longer be in their care and that they would be looked after by churches and funded by the Canadian government, or face imprisonment. The importance of this issue is that, Residential
Schools had a high impact at the time to destroy the close ties in Aboriginal families and the strong sense of culture in communities. ‘‘Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada... that has not been absorbed unto the body politic...and there is not Indian question