INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Health Canada, Bringing Them Home, Norway House Cree Nation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000Y
• Professor: davidnewhouse

Document Summary

Motivated by civilization and assimilation, land agenda, fear (of uprisings), nationalism and health agenda (stereotypes of dirty indians) 2 forms: boarding schools on or near reserves did math/farming/etc industrial schools larger - more gear towards the trades. Churches role: praying villages set up in quebec for indg unsuccessful because people would run away, get sick, lack of funding. Cultural backsliders: went back to community and back into their culture. They start to focus on changing individuals instead of communities, to make them. Mount elgin, wikwemikong and shingwauk: children were to be the focus because adults were unimprovable" and were impediments to the civilization process, children must be rescued and placed with new parents": the gov"t and the church. Thought: no visits, no runaways, due to distance. Half day system one part devoted to academic learning and one part involved in practical activities (chores or industrial/domestic trades)