CRS-3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Communities First
10 Apr 2016
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Ariculate a new relaionship between canadian state and its indigenous minority populaions. Re-build a comforing posiive moral image of postcolonial canadian society. Is it really possible to do both when one goal implies transformaion . Most schools federally funded but run by church missionary agencies. Hardships experienced by survivors and their families and communiies. First survivors break their silence in late 1980s, early 1990s. Report of royal commission of aboriginal peoples, 1996. Hundreds of lawsuits iled against churches and government. Extensive debate of church vs state responsibility for reparaions and compensaion-seen to be more of state"s responsibility, while churches ran the school gov was responsible for mandates, etc. Federal response in 1998 seen as parial apology. Creaion of indian residenial schools resoluion canada to coordinate federal response, 2000. Growing number of legal claims and class acion lawsuits. Coninuing demand for full apology from highest level of federal government. Canadian government delivered apology on june 11, 2008.
