Residential Schools
A network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. Attendance was mandatory from 1894 to 1947. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches.
What is Residential Schools?
The historical process of the world becoming more interconnected.
What is Historical Globalization?
This Italian explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, is credited with opening the Americas to European exploration.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling encouraged Western nations to “civilize” and control non-Western societies, portraying imperialism as a moral duty.
What is The White Man’s Burden?
Wealth disparity, and mental health issues caused by historical injustices and intergenerational trauma.
What is the legacy of Imperialism?
This Canadian act allowed the government to establish and fund residential schools.
What is the Indian Act?
This is an example of Historical Globalization.
What is:
The Silk Road?
Triangle Trade?
Colonization of India?
Colonization of Americas?
Scramble for Africa?
This Belgian king claimed the Congo as his personal colony, leading to severe exploitation and human rights abuses.
Who is King Leopold II?
This kind of map was often color-coded to show British colonies, reinforcing the scale and power of the British Empire to the public.
What is an imperial map (or colonial map)?
This global religion spread throughout the Americas, Asia, and Africa during the Age of Exploration due to European missionaries.
What is Christianity?
This was the primary goal of residential schools regarding Indigenous children.
What is Assimilation?
This 17th-century economic policy emphasized the accumulation of gold and silver and promoted exports over imports.
What is Mercantilism?
This type of European ruler, common in the Age of Exploration, held absolute power and often supported colonial expansion to increase wealth and influence.
What is a monarch (or absolute monarch)?
These printed visual works often exaggerated the “savagery” of Indigenous peoples to justify European colonization and control.
What are political cartoons?
The legacies of historical globalization are evident today through this process where Indigenous peoples assert control over land and resources.
What is Land Claims?
This is when the last residential school shut their doors.
What is significant about the year 1996?
This European power controlled much of North America, the Caribbean, and parts of Africa and Asia by the 18th century.
What is "GREAT" Britain?
This group of individuals, employed by companies like the Hudson’s Bay Company, played a significant role in establishing trade relationships with Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Who is The Fur Traders?
British schools and children’s books promoted this idea that Britain had a duty to “civilize” its colonies, teaching generations of children that empire was a positive force.
What is British Propaganda?
This concept refers to the current efforts in countries like Canada to repair relationships with Indigenous communities and acknowledge past wrongs.
What is Reconciliation?
This was one common punishment Indigenous children faced for speaking their native language.
What is isolation or confinement?
This conference in 1884-85 formalized European claims in Africa, without representation from African leaders.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Scottish economist whose work The Wealth of Nations laid the foundations for modern economics and capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
This romanticized term, often found in European literature, described this continent as a “dark”, implying it was unknown, dangerous, and in need of European exploration and control.
What is Africa?
This global health crisis was exacerbated by the spread of diseases brought by European colonizers to the Americas.
What is the Small Pox Epidemic?