Residential schools were a type of boarding school for the First Nations, Metis and Inuit children. Their purpose was to assimilate these people and erase their traditional langue, culture and way of life. Thousands of people were affected by the creation and presence of these schools. Primarily active from the1830’s to 1950’s it was a Canadian wide occurrence that shook the foundations of the original peoples of our country and have left a tarnished mark in Canada’s history and is still today effecting citizens lives. Residential schools or previously called Government Funded Industrial Schools were a type of boarding school for First Nation, Metis and Inuit children.
The government attempted to have a dominant race and remove any diversity. Their policies were to force everyone to abide by Christianity and
The term residential schools refers to an extensive school system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches that had the nominal objective of educating Aboriginal children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways of living and assimilating them into mainstream Canadian society. The residential school system operated from the 1880s into the closing decades of the 20th century. The system forcibly separated children from their families for extended periods of time and forbade them to acknowledge their Aboriginal heritage and culture or to speak their own languages. Children were severely punished if these, among other, strict rules were broken. Former students of residential schools have spoken of horrendous abuse at the hands of residential school staff: physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological.
This essay will prove that graduating students must be taught only Canadian literature in grade 12 rather than the aspects of American and British literature. There are great writers from all different cultures, despite this, as Canadians we must remain intent on learning the literature of our own country. Out of the various reasons for teaching only Canadian literature in grade 12, there are three main reasons that everybody should understand. The three reasons are; to assist students in becoming more familiar with the country they live in, to promote and establish our own Canadian writers, and to encourage the younger Canadian authors. As a member of the Canadian population, you are practically obligated to understand your own country.
It states that every citizen is able to express their own culture in this country; but that doesn’t necessarily make it multicultural. Canada’s multiculturalism could be questioned as an ideology, based on the unfair treatment of minority groups. Aboriginals, who originated in Canada, have a unique and fascinating history that is completely neglected today. There is an obvious uneven socio-economic division of success, giving the typical Caucasian, European Canadian the upper hand. Also, there is a significant relationship between multiculturalism and anti-racism.
The French just owned islands of St.Pierre and Miquelon. This event had a profound influence on Canada’s founding. As French arrived and Royal government established, life in New France became different. To start with, `the trade between Europeans and Aboriginal people changed life in New France. Some Native communities became dependent of trade and began to live near European settlements, and their resettlement made them expose to the epidemics which killed many Aboriginal people who had no natural immunity.
There past has been a battle between European and Indigenous culture. They are seen as “half-breed” and shameful to both sides. Metis people in modern day Canada are developing as strong and proud people of their culture and heritage. For non-aboriginal people it is hard to understand how to address aboriginals in Canada since there are many variations. In post-colonization periods, “redskins” and the “french-sauvages” have been used as derogatory term when addressing them.
Child Abuse and the Indian Child Welfare Act CHAPTER 1 Description of Problem The Native American Tribes have faced many hardships throughout the years, but none as hard as the loss of their children to non-Indian families. In the early 1600’s Indian children were sent to white boarding schools to be properly educated. Through the period of 1958-1968, The Indian Adoption Project took Indian children and adopted them to non-Indian families, ignoring the fact that these children were losing touch with their Tribal Heritage. Throughout the early years the Department of Social Services was also removing Indian children from their families due to child abuse complaints. The majority of the complaints were founded concerns.
The Chinese have contributed countless of efforts to build one of most important asset of the country, the Canadian Pacific Railways. The Chinese were mistreated by the Canadian government in many ways such as wages, basic needs, and job protections. Even after when the railway was completed, the Canadian government continues to impose further more segregation onto the Chinese from the general society. Actions like gradually incremented head taxes and elimination of their right to vote are things that the government has done. For these actions, Canada discriminated its own
In regards to the Aboriginal situation, they claim that the method in which the government has dealt with their citizens is inapplicable and ineffective to them. They have long sought after a system of self government or a kind of recognized distinct society within Canada. Many ethnic groups feel that separatism is the strongest form of politic expression and thus legitimizes the particular group (Horowitz 166). I believe that accommodation and tolerance is needed when discussing the aboriginal groups of Canada. Firstly, my paper will illustrate the many issues that arise with how communitarian scholars have approached the accommodation of this ethnic minority.