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Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's
Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's
findings and calls for action [8 books] (37277) |
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128 pieces
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2016
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James Lorimer
(1595)
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Canada
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Intermediate, Junior High, Senior High (IJS)
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Booking Library
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Righting Canada's wrongs
(1800)
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| | Synopsis
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Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now
recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First
Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in
a format that will give all young people access to this painful part
of Canadian history.
In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was 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, sometimes by force, and sent to residential schools
where they were made to abandon their culture. They were dressed in
uniforms, their hair was cut, they were forbidden to speak their
native language, and they were often 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 support 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
setting up 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
confronted and finally acknowledged.
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Florence, Melanie
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28 cm.
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1459408667
| | Contents
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8 Books ; 1 Teacher's guide ; 1 Points of Inquiry pamphlet.
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Theme: Inquiry
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8 books ; 2 guides all in a 17 x 29 x 43 cm. plastic bin.
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Melanie Florence
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Guide Included
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Truth and Reconciliation(CK);
Discrimination;
Inquiry-based learning;
Métis;
Residential schools;
Social Studies;
Social justice;
Diversity(CK);
First Nations—Government relations;
First Nations—Residential schools;
Inuit—Residential schools;
Métis—Residential schools
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INQ 6-12
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