SA 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Imperialism, Chemainus, Compulsory Education

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 100W
• Professor: John Bogardus

Document Summary

We begin with our documentary ilm exploring the lingering impact of a native residential school situated on the penelakut. Reserve, a tiny island of chemainus on the east coast of. As recounted by a group of returning survivors, the repercussions of their experiences at kuper island residential. School continue to haunt them 20 years after its closure. Among the hundreds of aboriginal children subjected to government- sanctioned compulsory education, the handful of individuals proiled in this moving account bear witness to the ongoing struggle to heal wounds inlicted many years before. I caution that this ilm contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse, which may be distressing to some people. The sexual abuse encountered by many children at kuper island is neither unique to that residential school nor universally experienced by all who were subjected to the educational regime of native residential schools in canada.