Mistreatment in Residential Schools
3 things Indigenous kids were forbidden from doing in Residential Schools
forbidden from/not allowed to:
- speak their native language
- wear their own clothes/traditional clothing
- keep their hair long
- practice their cultural traditions
- make contact with their families (some schools allowed occasional contact)
The place of origin for Starlight Tours
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Jean Chrétien and Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Harold Cardinal
The nickname of Francis Pegahmagabow given to him during his time in service
Peggy
An experiment where Indigenous children were deprived of proper food and hygiene products
The Nutritional Experiments
The Definition of Starlight Tours
A practice done historically in Canada where police will take vulnerable Indigenous people who are often drunk or alone and take them to the middle of nowhere in subzero/cold temperatures and leave them there to make their way back by themselves
This department was planned to be completely phased out of the government
The Department of Indian Affairs
The Year that the Red Paper was published
June 4, 1970
What was the language spoken by the main code talkers in WWI
Cree
Residential Schools were primarily run by these two types of organizations
Religious organizations and the government
An institution’s behaviours, policies, or practices that create or perpetuate racial inequalities
systemic racism
The surface level purpose of The White Paper
To give indigenous people the rights of everybody else
The Main Purpose of the Red Paper
A counter proposal to the white paper
The amount of Indigenous people who served in the Canadian military during WWI (less than 10,000)
around 4,000
This was a common outcome for many children who attended residential schools, referring to the lasting psychological impact
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or residential school syndrome
The year that starlight tours were first documented
1976
The underlying purpose of The White Paper
The assimilation of indigenous people
The alternative name to "The Red Paper"
Unjust Society
Francis Pegahmagabow kill count in the first World War
378
The year when Nutritional Experiments started
1942
The four Indigenous victims which led to an RCMP internal investigation
Lloyd Dustyhorn, Rodney Naistus, Lawrence Wegner and Neil Stonechild
The White Paper proposed converting reserve land into this type of property, which could be individually owned
Private Property
Harold Cardinal was the President of this association during the publishing of The Red Paper
The Indian Association of Alberta
Name of the Battalion's in the Canadian army that were composed primarily of Indigenous people
114th Battalion: Brock's Ranger
or
107th Battalion: Timber Wolf