LAWS 3504 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 LAWS 3504
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We had a quiz for the first half hour of this class. Residential schools: british crown and canada established residential schools to assimilate aboriginal people. Residential school survivors are still living the effects of the trauma to this day. This is not a past problem, but has many consequences for aboriginals today. They were not allowed to speak their language or practice their rituals their spiritual or cultural lifestyles. They were taught christian and church values. More than 150,000 placed in residential schools, most often against the will of communities and families. Three levels affected by the residential schools: the students themselves, but also their families and even communities, whose values were falling apart due to the gap. Right now, there are approximately 80,000 students living today who are residential school survivors. Residential schools (cid:862)as these residential school children grew up, most of them did not have the skills, knowledge, or emotional strength to parent their own children.
