Residential schools were government sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian culture. Some of the primary objectives of the residential schools were to remove and isolate children from their homes‚ cultures‚ traditions‚ and families. They believed the Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were unequal and inferior. At first students were sent to the schools by their parents as some of the parents first believed that the school would be good for
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so many of those schools" (“A selection of quotes”‚ 2014). Indian residential schools is one of many scars that plague Canada’s colonial history. For the Indigenous community‚ the effects of residential schools did not end when the schools were shut down‚ but instead they leave a legacy of trauma and pain. Today‚ Indigenous people are still picking up the pieces of their culture as they struggle to make sense of generations of families that have been disrupted. Residential schools have detrimental
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Background & Overview of Research For over a century‚ residential schools played a major role in assimilating First Nations into what Europeans consider a "dominant society." (Keeshig-Tobias‚ 2003) As part of the British North America and Indian Acts in 1867 and 1876‚ respectively‚ the Canadian government felt it was integral for First Nations to improve their lives by educating them in what they felt were culturally acceptable. Many First Nations children lose their sense of identity‚ initially
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Residential school had more negative affect on the student then positive. At the residential school children were physically‚ mentally‚ sexually abuse by stuff. The students were punished for speaking at their different‚ trying to run away from the residential school or for smallest mistake and no reason. At the residential school the student were named as a ‘Christian’ names or known only by a number. They were also forced to forget their language‚ beliefs‚ and culture and converted into Christianity
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Residential schools How they were meant to rob native children of their heritage Residential schools robbed native children of their heritage to prepare them for life in “white society”. This led to stolen childhoods and forgotten heritage. Aboriginal children were sent to schools that were called “Indian Residential Schools”. Residential schools were run by the Government of Canada and the churches (Catholic‚ Anglican‚ Methodist‚ United and Presbyterian). Residential schools were open from 1831
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A Residential School Legacy From the late 1800s to the 1980s‚ more than 100‚000 First Nations children in Canada attended residential schools (Llewellyn‚ 2008‚ p. 258).2 To attend these schools‚ children were taken away from their families and communities. At the schools‚ the children suffered from emotional‚ physical‚ sexual and spiritual abuse (Steckley & Cummins‚ 2001‚ p. 191). The worst abuses were often used as punishment for speaking their indigenous languages (Petten‚ 2007‚ p. 22). The
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begin‚ P. W. Bennett’s article discusses the connection between consolidation‚ bureaucracy‚ and public education. It discusses how huge school system bureaucracies grew out of the post-war prosperity and expansion‚ which changed the organization and management. The notion that ‘bigger is better’ ‚ there was a constant move to modernize everything about the school system. Michael B. Katz‚ in 1968‚ brought attention to a new way of looking at the origin and motives of publicly-funded education . Not
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The residential schools were established in 1800‚ created by the Canadian Council of indigenous Agreements the goal was to exterminate the belief and indigenous customs‚ the children were taken from their native residences to be taken to schools where their traditions‚ languages and beliefs were prohibited from being practiced. During the existence of this type of school‚ about 30 percent‚ or 150‚000 native children were Placed into residential school. This type of system began in pre Confederation
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Impact On Residential School Children Children from the ages of six and up were taken from their families forcefully to attend a school nearest them that would assimilate them into settler’s cultures. Often times children would even be taken as little as four years’ old to be assimilated at the schools. These schools were run by churches to “teach” the Indian children religion and to rid the Indian from them. If you did not send your child to the school‚ you could be jailed. In the very beginning
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the 1800’s‚ children were taken away from their families and friends from orders of the federal government. The government was working upon a system that isolated children from their families‚ traditions‚ language and culture. The purpose of residential schools was to take Indigenous children and "to kill the Indian in the child" (Erin Hanson)‚ meaning to rip the Aboriginal identity out from the children. The government wanted all Indigenous children to be taught a culture that they thought was most
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