Intergenerational effects of Residential schools

Intergenerational Effects of Residential Schools Who are the people that went to residential schools, where are they, and their families today? Have you ever heard someone talk about residential schools like it was an everyday conversation? Residential schools have become so camouflaged into the back of people’s minds. People tend to forget that these schools took place and that they are real life events that can have an effect on everyone around them. These schools have left such an imprint on Canada as a whole, that people should be more aware about the outcomes and more familiar with the history of these schools. The intergenerational effects of residential schools in today’s society has taken such a toll on Canada and especially on aboriginal people. Residential schools, was Canada’s policy of a genocide.(apa format) A genocide which has created such a conflict, nobody had ever anticipated that this would be the outcome. I want to be able to show whomever is reading this paper, the effects and the outcomes of what residential schools have on Canada and on aboriginal people. I will be interviewing Joni Desnomie who attended the Whitecap Residential School located in Lebret, Saskatchewan. When residential schools opened the Aboriginal people were told that they would get the educational rights that they had requested for their communities. Aboriginal leaders wanted to understand and learn more about the western culture that they felt were important. Regrettably, they did not prepare for the serious of unfortunate events that would come from these schools. “Though the Indians cooperated with these first residential schools and helped finance them, they soon recognized that their educational objectives were very different from those of the government and missionaries. The official policy of assimilation demanded a complete rejection of anything Indian.” (A.Grant pg. 59) When the aboriginal people found out that the school were set up for assimilation and