CANS 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phil Fontaine, Newsprint, Blackboard
6 Mar 2018
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Residential schools and the pursuit of truth and reconciliation in. The policy of aggressive assimilation: if anything is to be done with the indian, we must catch him very young. - nicholas flood. This continued the christian re-education (emphasis on re-education, because it is often forgotten that indigenous children did have education within their communities, and residential schools were an act to re-educate indigenous children through christian teachings) Facts: first federally funded school 1883, last school 1996, approximately 150,000 students attended, 4,000 died in the schools or shortly after, the majority of children were buried in unmarked school grounds. The death rates are probably: ultimately, the underlying theme was land. Indigenous names were replaced with numbers, given christian numbers, cutting of hair, change of clothes because these were steps for civilization : the cutting of hair civilized death, mourning and held much cultural significance (for.
