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a boarding school.

(in Canada) a government-supported boarding school for children from Inuit and other indigenous communities.

What is residential schools

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This police force was created in 1863 and their job was to: Clear the land, Displace Indigenous Peoples, Move them onto reserves, and take children away to Residential Schools


What is RCMP

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a Canadian act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves

What is The Indian Act

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The system in which orphans go to

What is the Foster Care system

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leader; most powerful and important person in a group (in an indigenous context)

What is chief

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a member of a group of native people of northern North America and Greenland
What is Inuit
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an original resident of a place
What is aboriginal
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land kept for Native people to live on
What are reserves
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the language, customs, ideas, and art of a particular group of people
What is culture
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This Prime Minister of Canada issued a public apology to the Indigenous peoples of Canada in 2008.

Who is Stephen Harper

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Loss of culture, family, identity, language, history, Psychological & Emotional problems, Feelings of not belonging, Inability to find biological families


What are impacts of the sixties scoop

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an official agreement that is made between two or more countries or groups
What is treaty
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a long narrow boat that is pointed at both ends and that is moved by a paddle with one blade
What is canoe
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a long narrow boat that is pointed at both ends and that is moved by a paddle with two blades
What is kayak
300
people who were in someone's family in past times
What is ancestors
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a native or resident of the continent of Europe
What is European
400

AIM

What is the Adopt Indian and Metis program

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Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, and later united churches

What are the Churches that ran the Residential Schools?

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an adjective referring to the places people live
What is residential
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the group of people that has power to make laws and important decisions for a community, state, or nation.
What is government
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the children of Native and European parents
What is Métis
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actionable policy recommendations meant to aid the healing process

what is the 94 calls to action

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something that one believes, thinks, or does that comes from one's family or ethnic background; tradition
What is heritage
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an organization with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian Indian residential school system on Indigenous students and their families.

What is the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

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an animated film about Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy, who died trying to escape a residential school to travel home to his family.

What is "The Secret Path"