Canada: Introduction - Residential Schools And Decolonization

Canada: Introduction - Residential Schools And Decolonization   Rosemary Nagy, Robinder Kaur Sehdev, 2012   In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:   "Home" to more than 150,000 children from the 1870s until 1996, the residential school system was aimed at "killing the Indian in the child" and assimilating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into white settler society. It was, in short, a genocidal policy, operated jointly by the federal government...

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