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The Bagot Commission Report on Native Education 1845
○ 1st: to collect the Indians in considerable numbers, and to settle them into
villages, with a due portion of land for cultivation and support
○ 2nd: to make such provision for their religious Improvement, education, and
instruction in husbandry as circumstances may from time to time require”
● 1840’s -- Church-run schools are established for aboriginal children
● 1883 -- Federal government establishes three large residential schools in Western
Canada to “kill the Indian in the child”
● 1920 -- The Indian Act is amended to make it compulsory for status Indian children
between 7 and 15 to attend residential school
● 1930’s -- 70 residential schools operating by this time
● 130: The total # of residential schools that received support from the federal government
at the program’s peak
● 60% of residential schools were ran by the Catholic church
● 1996 -- The year the last residential school closes outside Regina
● 150,000: The estimated # of children who went through the residential school system
○ First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students
● 80,000: The estimated # of residential school students still alive
● 3,200: The # of deaths identified by the Commission. But, due to poor record-keeping
and destroyed files, the true # of children who died while attending residential schools
may never be known
● 60%: The mortality rate reached at some residential schools
● $1.9 billion: The federal government’s compensation package offered to former
residential school students
● 37,951 Claims made for injuries resulting from physical and sexual abuse in residential
schools.
● 30,939 Claims resolved for sexual or serious physical abuse in residential schools by the
end of 2014.
● $2.7 Compensation in billions for claims as of 2014.
STATE OF THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
● 370 million in 90 countries
● ARTICLE 33 OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in
accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of
indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the
membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.
● Indigenous health of children in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United
States:
○ Infant Mortality Rates 1.7 to 4 times higher.
○ Higher rates of sudden infant death syndrome.
○ Higher rates of child injury, accidental death, and suicide.
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Document Summary
The bagot commission report on native education 1845. 1st: to collect the indians in considerable numbers, and to settle them into villages, with a due portion of land for cultivation and support. 2nd: to make such provision for their religious improvement, education, and instruction in husbandry as circumstances may from time to time require . 1840"s -- church-run schools are established for aboriginal children. 1883 -- federal government establishes three large residential schools in western. Canada to kill the indian in the child . 1920 -- the indian act is amended to make it compulsory for status indian children between 7 and 15 to attend residential school. 1930"s -- 70 residential schools operating by this time. 130: the total # of residential schools that received support from the federal government at the program"s peak. 60% of residential schools were ran by the catholic church. 1996 -- the year the last residential school closes outside regina.
