to the Residential school system. Residential schools were an extensive school system supported by the Canadian government‚ and administered by churches (Hanson). The Canadian government began to establish residential schools across Canada in the 1880’s. There were approximately 130 residential schools for aboriginal children of different communities across Canada (CBC) This essay will examine the residential school system in depth‚ the Canadian government’s actions upon residential schools‚ good
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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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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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The Indian Residential School system had a profound impact on many of the students who attended the schools‚ their descendants‚ and Aboriginal communities at large. Aboriginal experiences of the residential schools were largely missing from the historical record prior to 1990‚ when Chief Phil Fontaine publically acknowledged the abuse he and other students experienced at Fort Alexander school (Stanton‚ 2011‚ p. 2; The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada‚ 2015a‚ p. 41). Through the Truth
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Running Head: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL BIOGRAPHY Residential School Biography Running Head: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL BIOGRAPHY Treaties were signed by the Aboriginal people in the year of 1872‚ when the European settlers came to Canada. The negotiation lead into another subject in which they would build a residential school for the children of the Aboriginal people where they can help them in improving their economic and social practices. They negotiated with the Aboriginal people of
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came up with an idea to start assimilating Aboriginal peoples into the dominant culture. This meant taking 150‚000 children away from their homes and communities and placing them into residential schools. The assumption of Aboriginal peoples culture being peculiar‚ was greatly believed by the government and many people. The cruel saying “beat the Indian out of them” unfortunately became true‚ because that is exactly what took place in residential schools. Being exposed to many awful ways of abuse
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Residential schools should not be continued because of common practices‚ family‚ and knowledge. To begin‚ residential schools should not be continued because of common practices. Aboriginal children are already used to their common practices from home. They have been hunting and preparing food‚ and interacting positively with nature for at least four years. Adjusting to the new lifestyle they are put in is odd and difficult for them because in residential schools‚ the children do not hunt and prepare
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purpose of the residential school system was to integrate aboriginal children of the Aboriginal people in Canada into mainstream society. This was to be done through assimilation. The purpose of these schools has been described as a cultural genocide‚ or “killing the Indian in the child.” Children were forcibly separated from their family and taken from their reserves‚ to be placed in boarding schools run mainly by the Catholic‚ Anglican‚ Presbyterian‚ and United churches. Residential schools broke the
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