POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Body Politic
BNA$ACT$1867
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If$a$women$with$the$Indian$status$married$a$man$without$the$
indain$status,$they$would$be$striped$of$their$Indian$identity$and$be$
forced$to$move$away$into$her$husbands$community
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Indian$act$1876
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Child,$Family$and$community$services$act
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Youth$justice$act
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Forced$imposition$of$non$indigenous$governance$structures$and$legislation
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Objective$is$to$continue$until$there$is$not$a$single$Indian$in$Canada$that$
has$not$been$absorbed$into$the$body$politic$and$there$is$no$Indian$
question,$and$no$Indian$department,$that$is$the$whole$object$of$this$bill
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Foreign$government$policies,$practices$of$assimilation,$integration
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Enforced$relocations,$amalgamations$of$FN,$Inuit$and$metis$communities,$
poverty
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Colonization:
19th$century$-1996$(120$years)
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130$operated$by$government$and$churches
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150,000$>$8$generations
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1920$compulsory$attendance$7-15$years
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Goal$was$to$kill$the$Indian$in$the$child.$To$eradicate$indigenous$peoples$from$
existence,$to$adapt$policies$of$assimilation,$to$allow$perpetual$sexual$physical,$
emotional,$spiritual$ad$mental$abuse$against$generations$of$children
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Indian$residential$schools$in$canada
Reconciliation*in*Canada*-Education*&*Justice
Monday,$October$24,$2016
12:15$PM
