PERS 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Indian Act, Band Day, Indigenous Rights
17 Dec 2018
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National centre for truth & reconciliation - guest. Country has con icting understanding of who we are. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but non of the things that threaten or bother them. Disconnect between stephen harper saying an apology for residential schools and then saying there is no colonialism but, that is exactly what residential schools is. Perfect opportunity to address the indian problem. Was hard to recruit children to come to these schools. 1920 amendment to indian act made attendance mandatory. Intentional destruction of indigenous culture and language. Over 150,000 (most likely higher) children removed from their families and sent to the schools. 150,000 only considered those under the settlement agreement. In some families a full seven generations attended. Part of a policy that tried to civilize people in canada speci cally rst nations and. Residential schools was apart of this assimilation policy.
