EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Code-Switching, Cree Language, Campbell Scott
11 Apr 2016
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Duncan campbell scott on the role of the department of indian affairs (1920): Forced assimilation by the residential schools: they were legislated by law and funded by the federal government but administered by religious churches. Scott changed the legislation to make attendance to residential schools mandatory: the goal was education, but religious education through assimilation and vocational training as unpaid labour. 1948: very upset with where the spirit lives as it was supposed to a voice for. Natives but it had an all-white crew and was very whitewashed. People were finally talking and learning about residential schools but they were not getting a realistic image. She wrote an essay addressing the movie"s native and non-native writers. From jeanette armstrong (pg 600): many uncomfortable feelings associated with this passage, we as readers did not do anything but we still feel responsible for what was done by our ancestors. She is asking readers to basically take a look in the mirror.
