FEM 3108 Lecture 9: Residential Schools (cont.) and Child Welfare System (November 19, 2015)
2 Dec 2015
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O incorporated provisions 113-122 of indian act, which legally removes right of fn parents to their children giving government total control over children"s lives relating to education. Justifies government"s right to take the children for the purpose of assimilation and annihilation on fn culture and spirituality: repealed sections 109-113, but kept 114-122. Read up ghost river and the reason you walk . Documentaries we were children , our spirits don"t speak english and where the. Residential schools began in u. s. in 1850, in canada, 1890. Children in electric chairs to kill and suffered starvation to see how their bodies would act toward malnutrition. Indian residential schools was not voluntary education, not even education: children were forcefully taken from their parents. Prohibition of speaking fn languages and practice of spiritual beliefs cultural ways were forbidden this is why cultural heritage must be repaired: compensation package doesn"t include reparation for loss of language and culture.
