INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John A. Macdonald, Oatmeal, Wikwemikong First Nation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

In rmaries as part of the schools because of sicknesses: death rate was 50% at some points, particularly in bc and alberta. 75% of residential schools were ruled by roman catholic churches. Mid to southern parts of the canada: make sure children would not run away. Instances of children trying to return home but many schools were situated very far from their home for this reason. Early documentation of education: settler point of view: christian based education called aggressive assimilation, indigenous point of view: education was important as well. Industrial -> residential school: churches said that the industrial schools reversed what was being done because they would return home at night; the idea that you need to separate kids from their families, this created residential schools. Seen indigenous as sub-human; not quite human yet: they could mimic whites. Sense or feeling of what is being proposed: fill in. Kill the indian and the child -canada.