Week 18

Question 1

Residential School

Answer 1

-Tool of assimilation/ elimination for colonial intent
- not just in NA (different term, same intent)
- often ran by Christian Missionaries

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

• wanted to kill the “savage” within the body for the civilized person to emerge

Question 3

Residential School General Policy

Answer 3

Save the human, kill the Indian (save them)

Question 4

Other Countries Assimilation examples

Answer 4

• USSR/ China, assimilation policies in the 20th C
• Africa had boarding schools on colonial models of education
• Middle East, boarding schools targetted indig. elites giving them skill for them to pass onto the rest of the community

Question 5

Initial response to School

Answer 5

• Indig. people thought it would teach their children skills to survive in changing time
• but instead they were taught to hate themselves and their culture
  and subservience to White culture

Question 6

Start of Canadian Assimilation

Answer 6

• after 1812 (needed Indig allies for war)
• 1846: full commit to residential schools
  After 1867 full push/ government focus started
  1879: Nicholas Flood Davin (Regina MP) mirror US school system
  1889: Department of Indian Affairs
  1896: Canada funded 45 church run schools

Question 7

Living Conditions of School (Canada)

Answer 7

• poor
• overcrowding
• disease like TB
• high death rates
• Abuse (physical and sexual)

Question 8

Court Cases After Res. School

Answer 8

• “institutionalized pedophelia” ( Court Justice)
  -little convictions done
• led to church apologies (catholic just said they did wrong but no apologies)

Question 9

US Boarding Schools

Answer 9

• schools set up on reserves
• solve the problem (exterminate or befriend/ civilize)
• instil patriarchal structures
• cheaper to school them then go to war

Question 10

Australia Boarding School

Answer 10

• separating children to Christianize them