What is a residential school? In the 19th century‚ the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and caring for the country’s aboriginal people. It thought their best chance for success was to learn English and adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. Ideally‚ they would pass their adopted lifestyle on to their children‚ and native traditions would diminish‚ or be completely abolished in a few generations. The Canadian government developed a policy called "aggressive assimilation"
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The Aboriginal peoples were the first people on this land‚ and yet they have always been treated as second-class citizens. The Canadian government forced Aboriginal Peoples onto reserves and trying to convert them to a more European lifestyle‚ thus destroying their way of life. Although Aboriginal Canadians made significant contributions during the First World War‚ they were often discriminated against and did not receive fair or equal treatment. Firstly Aboriginal men and women made important contributions
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First Nation • A term used in place of “Indian band / nation” Pre-WW1 • Many Aboriginal peoples found themselves increasingly displaced as immigration increases in Canada • Illness and disease were becoming problems – Aboriginal populations were declining • Federal government’s policy of assimilation was being carried out through use of the residential school system‚ enforced farming‚ and reserve system o Residential schools had been set up under the 1876 InAct because the Act stated
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Aboriginal people are the first settlers of Canada‚ including the first nations‚ Inuit‚ and Métis. Upon the arrival of the European settlers of Canada who came with their own civilization‚ the aboriginal people were considered ignorant and uneducated. These European settlers wanted to increase literacy at the same time making their culture dominant over the aboriginal people leading to the funding for the residential schools. This is where the aboriginal children were taken for education. This became
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punnet jabal the aboriginal peoples are the original inhabits of Canada . the Canadian government believed that the children of the aboriginal people were going to be the start of assimilation. it was with that idea the government decided to create residential schools . the government thought that taking these children and putting them in schools would make lose their culture and identity . by 1910 around 150‚000 children were forced to attend these school. they were taken to schools hundreds of
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Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Fault Line Aljun Lagria 11117601 5 Pages Sept 19‚ 2014 The term aboriginal is used to classify the first inhabitants to occupy the landmass of what is called Canada today. The different indigenous groups classified as aboriginal of Canada lived a harmonious life‚ relying on the land and what it had to offer to suffice their daily need. Thousands of year later‚ Europeans of English and
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In 2011‚ approxiamently 4.3% of the Canadian population was Aboriginal. In 1931‚ when the largest amount of residential schools were in place‚ there were about 80 residential schools operating in Canada. The first residential school was established in 1840 by the Canadian government. These schools treated the First Nation people poorly and didn’t allow them to see their family. Imagine yourself in the Aboriginals place‚ being stuck in a school and potentially physically and mentally abused by the
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In Canada‚ there is a catastrophic history that accompanies the Aboriginal populations‚ suffering through colonialism and decades of forced assimilation into the larger Canadian society‚ and this history has‚ in turn‚ had devastating psychological and social consequences. There was a replacement of values and beliefs in society by Euro-Canadians‚ through ways such as the residential school system in order to assimilate children into mainstream society at the time (Switlo‚ 2002‚ pg. 103). Within the
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From the late 1800s to the 1980s‚ more than 100‚000 First Nations children in Canada attended residential schools To attend these schools‚ children were taken away from their families and communities. At the schools‚ the children suffered from emotional‚ physical‚ sexual and spiritual abuse. The worst abuses were often used as punishment for speaking their indigenous languages. The imposition of residential schools on First Nations children has led to significant loss of indigenous languages‚ and
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The government of Canada severely mistreated its aboriginal population according to the assimilation and residential schools‚ The White Paper and The National Indian Brotherhood‚ The James Bay Project and land claims‚ The Calder Case‚ The Mackenzie River Pipeline Issue‚ enfranchisement‚ The Meech Lake Accord‚ The Charlottetown Accord‚ Oka confrontation and Ipperwash‚ Ontario confrontation. Assimilation policy isolated and changed from one of assimilation by a community to one of outright assimilation
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