Residential Schools
60's scoop
Children's Aid Society
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What is a residential school
A network of “residential” (boarding) schools for Native Canadians funded by the governments.
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What is the 60's scoop?
The adoption of First Nation/Metis children in Canada between the years of 1960 and the mid 1980′s.
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What is CAS?
Childrens Aid Society
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What was the purpose of residential schools?
To "kill" the Native inside the child and assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture
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Why is the 60's scoop called "the 60's scoop"
It is called the “60’s scoop” because the highest numbers of adoptions took place in the decade of the 1960s
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What did Childrens Aid Society do for the Natives?
They helped try and stop the cultural genocide, but failed until the 1990's
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What kind of abuse went on at residential schools?
sexual abuse, physically abuse, verbal abuse and mental abuse
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What would happen to the kids that got taken to residential schools?
they were taken from there homes without concent from their parents, and put into a strange building with strangers
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What is the declared goal for CAS?
To promote the best interests, protection and well being of children
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When was the last federally operated residential school closed?
1996
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The Department of Indian Affairs reveal a total of ____ Indian children adopted between the years of 1960 and 1990.
11,132 (11,000-12,000)
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What was the conditions is residential schools like?
Over crowded, poor sanitation, inadequate heating, and a lack of medical care led to high rates of influenza and tuberculosis
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What does genocide mean?
the deliberate killing of a specific group of people
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