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- Founded on notions of racial, cultural, and spiritual superiority, these schools attempted to convert Indigenous children to Christianity and separate them from their traditional cultures.
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Introduction: residential schools. Residential schools were government-sponsored Christian schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into settler-Canadian society.
- Resistance at Residential Schools
- Friendship as Resistance
- Culture as Resistance
- Running Away from Residential School
- Parental Resistance
- Significance and Legacy
Children responded to being removed fromtheir families and institutionalized at residential schools in severaldifferent ways. Many resisted by simply being children: despite facing austereconditions, a number of them remained playful, sometimes making their schoolsupervisors the centres of their jokes. Some students gave their supervisorsand teache...
When they arrived at residential school,Indigenous children were often segregated – first by religious denomination,then by gender and by age. Because of this, siblings were often separated fromone another. Having been removed from their homes and families, they found institutionallife extremely lonely. But many children made strong friendships wit...
A key goal of the residential-school systemwas to eradicate Indigenous cultures. In many instances, the schools and theirstaff successfully did so. There were small groups of students, however, who continuedto practise their cultures while institutionalized in an effort to resistassimilation. Speaking one’s Indigenous language was one way to resist...
As a last resort, some children escaped theoppressive environment of residential schools. By fleeing, they were respondingto their poor living conditions in a very physical and visceral way. Sometimes,if they made it home or to a relative’s house, their family returned them toschool out of fear of retribution from local IndianAgents. Other children...
Student attendance at residential schoolswas compulsory according to the IndianAct and other legislation. But Indigenous parents protestedthe state of their children’s education and living arrangements as much as theirchildren did. Some parents kept their children at home despite the possible consequencesof imprisonment, hefty fines or the relinqui...
Indigenous peoples continue to resist the residential-schoolsystem in several ways. Some people, for example, have deemed Canadian child-welfareservices to be the “new residential school,” and Gitxsanscholar and activist Cindy Blackstock has been working as a tireless advocatefor Indigenous children and their parents. Many Survivors are sharing and...
Sep 1, 2020 · The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada described the residential school system as a cultural genocide. The intergenerational effects of the trauma include lower levels of educational and social attainment, interpersonal violence, and broken relationships between parents and children.
Residential schools were boarding schools for Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) children and youth, financed by the federal government but staffed and run by several Christian religious institutions— the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, United and Methodist Churches.
Residential schools were established by Christian churches and the federal government to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian society.
Jul 29, 2022 · A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
The Canadian Indian residential school system[nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [nb 2] The network was funded by the Canadian government 's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
