History
Three negative conditions at residential schools (structurally) were...
Poor ventilation, poor heating, overcrowded, poor construction, lack of medical facilities/supplies.
Three examples of negative generational impact that resulted from residential schools are...
What is -Inability to parent -Poverty -Substance Abuse -Suicide -Physical & Sexual Abuse -Incarceration -Children in Care -Mental Health Issues -Mental Health Issues -Disease and Illness -Poor Educational Outcomes
These institutions were created before residential schools. They failed to effectively educate and assimilate First Peoples children in part because attendance was not mandatory.
What were Day Schools?
Learning what is right and what is wrong
What is the second strand?
This was the year that the last residential school closed.
What is 1996
Why is substance abuse a generational impact from the residential school system?
Violence and abuse that students experienced may lead to substance abuse as a way of dealing with these pains.
This report, commissioned in 1879 by Sir John A. Macdonald, advised the Canadian government on a suitable education system for the First Peoples.
What was the Davin Report?
Self-maintenance, Charity, pauperism
What is the fifth strand?
These three provinces did not have residential schools.
What is New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland
Describe how parental dysfunction is a generational impact from the residential school system.
Students were taken from their own families at a young age and placed in institutions where healthy relationships were largely unavailable. This traumatic experience inhibits one's ability to parent one's children in a healthy way.
This man disagreed with the residential school system, because he felt it contradicted one of the most important commandments in Christianity (that children should love and respect their parents).
Who was Frank Oliver, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in 1908?
Respect, obedience, cleanliness, order, and neatness.
What is the first strand?
Students in residential schools only did academic work for the first half of the day. For the remainder of the day, they typically did this.
What is manual work and receiving religious instruction?
About this many children were forced into Canadian residential schools.
This man reported that adult First Nations people were “physically, mentally and morally…unfitted to bear such a complete metamorphosis” necessary for civilization.
Who was J.A. Macrae, Inspector of Schools for the Northwest?
This word was used to refer to the undesired effect of cultural backsliding by the graduates of residential schools (p.40). The government sought to prevent this.
What is Retrogression?
Students were to develop independence and self-respect
What is the third strand?
These are aspects of First Peoples' culture that children lost due to residential schooling.
What is loss of language, traditional beliefs, skills and knowledge, and separation from one's heritage?
Founded in 2013 to commemorate the thousands of Indigenous Children forced into residential schools.
What is Orange Shirt Day?
This premise behind the Department of Indian Affairs was inherently violent, yet widely accepted as a right motive of the civilizing system.
What is the premise: to "kill the Indian" in the child?
A word to describe one's "nature of being".
What is ontology?
Students were to compare and contrast the indigenous ways of life to their white counterparts.
What is the sixth strand?