Residential Schools Flashcards
Why were the residential schools established?
They were established in hopes to strip Aboriginal people of their language and culture in order to successfully assimilate aboriginal people into the European population
When were they established?
They were established in the 1800’s by Indian Affairs in conjunction with several Christian churches, removing Aboriginal children from their communities and placed in residential school.
What did these schools restrict/deny?
It restricted/denied access to children’s Aboriginal culture (language, spiritual rituals, family) & sought to fulfill the assimilationist policies of the federal government
What did this result in?
Which resulted in crippling many Aboriginal children and families (many came out with drug, alcohol addictions and problems with mental health from psychological trauma, or were unable to parent their children as parenting models were made unavailable to them growing up), as many of them were regularly subjected to abuses (emotional, physical, sexual)
