SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Learned Helplessness, Elitism, Social Distance
12 Sep 2018
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Trc: response to the legacy of a century of enforced residential schooling of aboriginal people. 3. need for continual healing and education. Late 1800s: canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and caring for aboriginal people. Pass adopted lifestyle on to their children. Indian act (1876): church-run, government funded industrial schools - boarding schools: residential schools ; until 1996. 80 schools; 150000 children removed from community and families - forced to attend: total institution (goffman) Duncan campbell scott: final solution of our indian problemkill the indian in. Policy of aggressive assimilation - white societal cultures, values, religion and the child . languages. Rescuing children from evil surroundings, and keeping them constantly within a circle of civilized conditions. Substandard conditions: subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Story: wab kinew and father, tobasonakwut kinew. Poverty, poor health, substance abuse, racism, educational failure, family violence. Loss of identity, exclusion, learned helplessness from having their values oppressed and their rights ignored.
