Timeline
What is 1831?
The year the Mohawk Institute opened, starting the system.
What is the Indian Act?
The name of the Act that governed residential schools.
What is the TRC?
The name of the Commission that heard survivor stories.
What are unmarked graves?
The physical evidence recently found at school sites.
What is 150,000?
The total number of children who attended these schools.
What is 1996?
The year the final school (Gordon Residential) closed.
Who is Dr. Peter Bryce?
The Medical Inspector who reported on school health in 1907.
What is 94?
The total number of "Calls to Action" released by the TRC.
What is the NCTR?
The organization that keeps the official digital archives.
What is an orange shirt?
The symbol used for "Every Child Matters.
What is 2008?
The year the Prime Minister delivered the formal apology.
What is mandatory attendance?
The 1920 rule that forced all children to attend school.
What is the IRSSA?
The class-action deal that led to the TRC's creation.
What is "Children Who Never Returned Home"?
The NCTR section for missing students.
What is intergenerational trauma?
The term for trauma passed through families.
What is 165 years?
The number of years the school system officially lasted.
What is Tuberculosis?
The specific disease Dr. Bryce found was killing students.
What is Health?
One area the 94 Calls to Action focus on.
What is poor ventilation and sanitation?
The reason Dr. Bryce said children were dying in 1907.
What is the child?
The goal of the schools was to "kill the Indian in the..."
What is the 1970s?
The decade when the government began closing most schools.
Who is Duncan Campbell Scott?
The name of the politician who wanted to "get rid of the Indian problem."
What is the NCTR?
The permanent home for the TRC’s records at U of Manitoba.
What is 86,000?
The number of survivors involved in the IRSSA settlement.
What is a Treaty Person?
What it means to be a "person" under the original treaties.