DST 500 Chapter Articles: History of Madness W4 Readings

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

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Chapter 5, residential school syndrome (chrisjohn, young & maraun) Accounts affirming the unintentionality of the consequences wrought by indian. Residential schools are false as residential schooling had been done before this, and (cid:862)positi(cid:448)e(cid:863) results (cid:449)ere see(cid:374) Earliest forms of residential schools were religious and targeted women, created to bring about social and psychological result, because women were subhuman, sinful, whose basic nature must be changed. Lack of contact with parents in order to break with past roles (role dispossession) If a child stays for a long period, disculturation will occur (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is a(cid:374) (cid:862)u(cid:374)trai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Horror stories including starvation, uniforms, loneliness, work, etc. A school day consisted half of academics, and then of religious acts and hard labor. Discipline exceeded accepted canadian standards even without torture. Residential schools implemented a well-established technology that targeted the spirits, (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds, feeli(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d (cid:271)odies of it"s (cid:449)ards.