A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 (Manitoba Studies in Native History)

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For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun Within the 1870s, it used to be intended, Within the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, on the other hand, were far different. More incessantly, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and incessantly abuse.
     The use of in the past unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. Within the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. In spite of a lot of essential commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without bettering conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system used to be chronically underfunded and incessantly mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children.
 

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