Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools: The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Calls for Action

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Canada’s residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic unsuitable committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format so we can give all young people get admission to to this painful a part of Canadian history.

In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was once passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada with the aim of assimilating First Nations people. In 1879, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald commissioned the “Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds.” This report led to native residential schools across Canada. First Nations and Inuit children aged seven to fifteen years old were taken from their families, every now and then by force, and sent to residential schools where they were made to abandon their culture. They were dressed in uniforms, their hair was once cut, they were forbidden to speak their native language, and they were steadily subjected to physical and psychological abuse. The schools were run by the churches and funded by the federal government.

About 150,000 aboriginal children went to 130 residential schools across Canada.

The last federally funded residential school closed in 1996 in Saskatchewan. The horrors that many children endured at residential schools did not go away. It took decades for people to speak out, but with the improve of the Assembly of First Nations and Inuit organizations, former residential school students took the federal government and the churches to court. Their cases led to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history. In 2008, Prime Minister Harper formally apologized to former native residential school students for the atrocities they suffered and the role the government played in putting in place the school system. The agreement included the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has since worked to document this experience and toward reconciliation.

Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people who survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was once confronted and after all acknowledged.

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