purpose of the residential school is to civilize the Indian and to make them good‚ useful and law abiding members of society with strict punishments for any wrong doings. 1 Richard Pratt‚ who founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School‚ one of the first of the reservation schools in the United States‚ preached “you must kill the Indian in him; to save the man”. These ideals were later adopted by the Canadian government. 2 The goal of residential schools was to assimilate Aboriginals into white society
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power to unite all the Catholic nations against a common enemy. Europeans were willing to fight not only for Jerusalem but many reasons. They believed it would give them forgiveness of sins‚ a chance to travel and make money‚ defend the Byzantine Empire from the Turks‚ opportunity to get new land in the Middle East and opening trade routes between Europe and Middle East. There were nine crusades fought by Christians against Muslims in the Middle East. The first crusade began in 1096‚ which were
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The Choctaw Tribe The Choctaw Indians were an important tribe‚ and the largest of the Muskogean tribes. The Choctaws have two stories about their origins in their traditional homeland in central Mississippi. One is that their ancestors came from west of the Mississippi River and settled in what is now the homeland. The other is that the tribe is descended from ancestors who were formed by a spirit from the damp earth of Nanih Waiyah‚ a large mound in northeastern Mississippi. Either way‚ the Choctaws
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal‚ by Eric Schlosser. Perennial of HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2002. 383 pp.‚ $13.95. ³As American as a small‚ rectangular‚ hand-held‚ frozen‚ and reheated apple pie.² (p. 3) Far from being a run of the mill expose on calories and fat grams in fast food‚ Fast Food Nation is a hard-hitting critique of the industrialization of America¹s and‚ later‚ the world¹s food supply. The consequences of this industrialization have far-reaching effects
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First and foremost‚ Aboriginal people lost family or friends due to the abuse‚ or due to their attempts to run away from the schools. A parent losing a child is considered one of the most traumatic experiences a person could ever undergo. In fact‚ it is
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser discusses the fast food industry in depth. Many aspects of this industry are analyzed‚ from the inhumane treatment of the cattle in their feedlots to the overworked and underpaid employees at fast food restaurants. Although this book only looks at the American fast food industry‚ it is becoming identical for the rest of the world due to globalization. This book provides a realistic‚ yet depressing‚ view of what our society is coming to. It addresses numerous problems
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government never seriously implemented it to get rid of the Aboriginal culture once and for all until the 1920s. The government funded Residential schools and they were an extremely effective way to make the Aboriginal children forget their traditions. At first‚ attendance at these schools was voluntary but in 1920 all aboriginal children between the ages of 7 and 15 were now required to go to residential schools. The children were taken from their homes and at the schools were not allowed to speak their
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the beautiful island of Newfoundland and Labrador? This breathtaking province is located on the eastern edge of North America and is the youngest province to join Confederation in 1949 (Summers‚ 2010) to become a part of Canada. There are many attributes that make up this province. Physical‚ economical and human diversity play a large role in the makeup of this province. These various characteristics differentiate Newfoundland and Labrador
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the Onion Lake First Nation‚ there are unwritten words of history. In this case‚ where Kanepetetew explains “The Ten Treaty Sticks” it is clear the Cree people had instilled their own culture and beliefs within the treaties and for this essay’s purposes‚ I will examine the extended implication these practices have had on the Cree people both pre- and post-contact. From this I will create adapt these teachings to those covered throughout the class material. The Treaty Sticks The first stick represents
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into play. The imposition of residential schools for Native children was a form of cultural genocide. First‚ the main purpose for the creation of the residential school system was to assimilate Native Peoples into mainstream society. This objective was based on the assumption that Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal to the beliefs of the European settlers. The first residential school in Canada‚ called the Presbyterian Coqualeetza Indian Residential School was built
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