INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Peregrine Maitland, Clifford Sifton

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

Document Summary

The long assault and the attack on the children. Educated as a means to mould" indg. Peoples in the superior" european image this includes x, the role of women and governance. Motivated by land agenda the dissolution of community property. Education as a door way to individual land tenure. Motivated by fear worried about potential for uprisings. Motivated by nationalism a new nation state with little identity. Education as the creation of a dedicated and loyal citizen. Peoples one of the mail goals of canada at confederation. Education is seen as the key to this common in the late 1800"s. 2 forms: boarding school on or near reserve and did math, farming etc, industrial school larger and urban trade schools. Population pressure in southern ontario in particular. By 1820 policy was about civilization. This included farming, western governance, and christianity. Self-government still in effect chiefs mostly in control of any changes that came.