Indian Residential Schools INTRO How many of you guys have heard about Indian residential schools? Probably not a lot of you. This is a topic you probably haven’t discussed before‚ but it’s a topic I believe everyone should be educated about and informed on. For about 100 years‚ the government removed Aboriginal children from their homes and placed them in residential schools in an attempt to make them "Canadian." In very strict and often violent environments‚ children were denied regular contact
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Parshant Jindal T00539563 Dr. Yaying Zhang ENGL1100-17 The Residential School System: Philosophy From the ancient times‚ various societies try to exercise control over the others in order to demonstrate power and strength. Making people learn others language‚ religions and beliefs has often been a way to control large racial groups in an effective way. In the article‚ “The Residential School System‚” Murray Sinclair and A.C. Hamilton sheds light on different attitudes and philosophical ideas of
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Abstract This research explores how the residential schools established in the 19th century affected the Native population and the Canadian government. This has been done by examining primary sources such as digital archives‚ books‚ statistics and reports. Upon examination of these events‚ it becomes clear that residential schools had a long term negative impact on the Aboriginal communities and created a negative image to the Canadian government. Despite the government’s goals of assimilating
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In the 19th century the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and caring for the country’s aboriginal people. It though that native peoples best chance for success was to adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. Thus‚ in 1857 the Gradual Civilization Act was passed to assimilate natives. Children were the main targets‚ because it was believed that it would be easier to mould a young child as opposed to an adult. By assimilating the aboriginal children into the lower fringes
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Long before Europeans came to North America‚ aboriginal people had a highly developed system of education. There was a great deal for aboriginal children to learn before they could survive on their own. Aboriginal elders and parents passed on not only survival skills to their children‚ but their history‚ artistic ability‚ music‚ language‚ moral and religious values. When European missionaries began to live amongst aboriginal people‚ they concluded that the sooner they could separate children from
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Residential Schools: A Promise to the Aboriginal People Shakainah D. Aycardo Residential Schools in Canada have left a negative and destructive legacy in the lives of Aboriginal People. Aboriginal people hold the results of their ancestors long standing and their occupancy of the land. Hunting‚ trapping‚ and fishing on Ancestral lands‚ some examples that Aboriginal people rights. Residential Schools were established by the Canadian
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Residential Schools and their Historical Effects on the Elders of Today Long before Europeans came to North America‚ Native people had a highly developed system of education. There was a great deal for Native children to learn before they could survive on their own. Native elders and parents passed on not only survival skills to their children‚ but their history‚ artistic ability‚ music‚ language‚ moral and religious values. When European missionaries began to live amongst Native people
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In 1931 there were about 80 residential schools operating in Canada (News‚ CBC). Over the years that residential schools were in session‚ there were many traumatic events that caused mental‚ emotional‚ and physical damage to not only the individuals who attended‚ but also their families. While residential schools are in the past‚ there are still many long term effects including crime‚ parental abuse and substance abuse that harm the Aboriginal population to this day. Firstly‚ the atrocity of substance
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Residential Schools Basma Dhaw GENE 48 – 101 Michelle A. LaMarche November 4‚ 2014 Residential Schools In the 19th Century‚ what was the punishment of the crime for being born Native? “It is clear that the schools have been‚ arguably‚ the most damaging of the many elements of Canada’s colonization of this land’s original peoples and‚ as their consequences still affect the lives of Aboriginal people today‚ they remain so.”—John S. Milloy‚ A National Crime The First Nation people have
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deaf child‚ as a hearing parent. One major decision on a parent’s plate for their deaf child is the choice of a residential or oral school to enroll their child in. Even though the students will be less exposed to deaf culture‚ parents of deaf children should send their kids to an oral school because they graduate with a higher reading level than kids who graduate from a residential school and learning how to assimilate with the majority of the population could help further their experience in life
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