Vocabulary
This happens when a person/group's language and/or culture become synonymous with another’s. This is what the residential schools were built for.
What is "Assimilation"?
Truth and Reconciliation Committee was established.
What was established in 2008?
150,000 students were estimated to have attended, and 6000 more were not even reported.
How many Indigenous children attended residential schools?
A mood disorder, causes constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest in daily events.
What is depression?
Compiled by Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the history residential schools and to advance the progress of reconciliation.
What are "Calls To Actions"?
The reestablishments of cordial relations and the new goal following the dismantlement of residential schools/the public apology from Steven Harper and Justin Trudeau.
What is "Reconciliation"?
Residential schools
What started as far back as 1620?
Between the 1870s to 1990s.
Between what years did residential schools run?
Usage of drugs beyond recreational amounts; can harm oneself and others.
Includes misusage of items such as alcohol, opioids, hallucinogens, etc.
What is substance abuse?
Land where the Aboriginal Title was never given to the government.
What is "unceded land"?
A piece of land dedicated to a band of Indigenous people by her majesty. It is set apart for Indigenous people to use and live on. It is typically appointed by government officials, usually with disregard to the traditional land pieces of the Indigenous people.
What is a "reserve"?
It marked the closure of the last federally run residential school.
What happened in 1996?
They prohibited children from using their language, practicing their traditions, maintaining their culture, and forced to learn European languages such as English and French.
How did residential schools assimilate Indigenous children?
Failure to maintain this may result in mental distress, depression, addictive behaviours and substance abuse, stress, and suicidal behaviours.
What is mental well-being?
Defined as being the interests of a non-Indigenous audience that benefits from the direct violation of treaty relationships and exploitation of Indigenous lands.
What is "The Public Interest"?
Established in 2008, as a part of the Indian residential schools settlement agreement and is made to pursue the idea of reconciliation in Canada. The TRC created the 94 calls to actions after hearing thousands of survival and horror stories from Canadians and their families who suffered.
What is "Truth and Reconciliation Committee"?
A class action lawsuit began over the legacy of residential schools.
What occurred in 2005?
An unwanted cause of an event.
EX. When children came out of residential school, they could not fit back into their community because they had lost their memory of the culture.
What is "repercussions"?
They are meant to be cherished and to be protected. When they were taken, a hole was left in their place that could not be filled. As the main priority of a community, their light was lost, their main purpose was taken.
What are children to Indigenous communities?
Promotes racial inequality, such as claims put on unceded Indigenous lands/territories (which originated from European imperialism/colonization).
What is structural racism?
The legally binding agreement reached in 2005 that called for financial compensation, the creation of the truth and reconciliation committee among a few other things.
What is "The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement"?
The Mohawk Institute, the first recognized residential school under the Indian residential schools settlement was established in Brantford, Ontario.
What was established in 1831?
The length of the correlating impact of the IRS last according to Indigenous society.
What is "seven generations"?
When children of attendees demonstrates poorer health status than children of non-attendees.
For example, families in which multiple generations attended residential schools have been found to have greater distress than those in which only one generation attended
What is intergenerational effect?
An international agreement on the well-being and rights of Aboriginal individuals, has an emphasis on “free, prior and informed consent” regarding development and recourse utilization on/off Indigenous ancestral lands.
What is the "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)"?