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Residential schools

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Created on April 28, 2023

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Residential

Schools

When was it first established?

  • From the 17th century until the late 1990’s
  • At least 150 000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children…
  • Why were they established in the first place?
  • The main goal

Responsabilities

Religious organizations

Canadian Government

Funding

Practice

What happened once they arrived?

Seperated

Stripped

Required to...

  • From their family
  • Their traditional clothes
  • Hair
  • Belongings
  • Speak english
  • Participate in religious practice

What happened to the students?

Abuse

Punished

Unsanitary

Malnutrition

Overcrowding

Neglection

The effects

Short terms

Long terms

  • Abuse and the healing process
  • Adaptation
  • Trauma
  • Cultural loss
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Loss of family and community structure

"Positive aspect"

Nutritional experiment

  • Between 1942 and 1952
  • In 6 different school
  • Designed to test effects of vitamins supplement on health
  • Done without parental consent

Conclusion and questions

  • Do you think the efforts of the Canadian government was enough to reconcile for what they did to the Indigenous communities?
  • What can be done to prevent similar forms of cultural and systemic violence from occurring in the future?