Mistreatment/Conditions First Nations Faced
In Residential Schools First Nations were forced to practice a religion(s)
What is Catholic Faith?
Indigenous people lost their ____ due to residential schools banning them from speaking it
What is Language
Did the Catholic Church provide an apology for residential schools?
What is No
We need to help them, guide them, and show them the way.
What is government perspective?
Residential Schools were built to..
What is assimilate
Residential Schools caused First Nations to lose many things important to them and their culture.
What is Culture, Language, Hair, History, Religion?
Due to Residential Schools First Nations have _____ incarceration rates due to generational trauma
What is Higher
What is the National Holiday to bring awareness about Residential Schools
What is Truth and Reconciliation day/ Orange Shirt Day
“My name was Lydia, but in the school I was, I didn’t have a name, I had numbers. I had number 51, number 44, number 32, number 16, number 11, and then finally number one when I was just about coming to high school. So, I wasn’t, I didn’t have a name, I had numbers. You were called 32, that’s me, and all our clothes were, had 32 on them. All our clothes and footwear, they all had number 32, number 16, whatever number they gave me.”
What is Indigenous Perspective(Lydia Ross-Residential school survivor)
Residential Schools were built because
What is European Settlers believed First Nations were savages that need to be guided
Why did First Nation Children want to flee from Residential Schools?
What is poor living conditions and abuse
First Nations lost their names and were often called by.....
What is a Number
Who was the first Prime Minister to officially apologize for Residential Schools
What is Stephen Harper in 2008
“And then they cut off my beautiful hair. You know and my hair, my hair represents such a spiritual significance of my life and my spirit. And they did not know, you know, what they were doing to me. You know and I cried and I see them throw my hair into a garbage can, my long, beautiful braids.”
What is Indigenous Perspective(Campbell Papequash-Residential School Survivor)
The first Residential School was built
What is 1831
Corporal punishment was justified for two reasons.
What is to deter runaways and stop the use of their native language?
How were girls treated in Residential Schools
What is they were made to feel worthless and inferior
This group made the first apology to First Nations for residential schools.
What is United Church of Canada in 1986
“All true civilization must be based on moral law, which Christian religion alone can give. Pagan superstition could not suffice . . . to make the Indians practice the virtues of our civilization and avoid its attendant vices. Several people have desired us to countenance the dances of the Indians and to observe their festivals; but their habits, being the result of free and easy mode of life, cannot conform to the intense struggle for life which our social conditions require.”
What is the Catholic Church Perspective(Convention of Catholic Principals in 1924)
What is over 150 000
First Nations were presented with forced labour in Residential Schools the government presented this as.
What is training for artisanal skills?
What is the Scientific term for stress/trauma passed through generations
What is Epigenetics
What was the Aboriginal Healing Fund used for?
350 million dollars from the Canadian government to start community-based healing programs because of residential schools.( Federal funding was cut in 2010 by the Harper Government and the program closed in 2014
“This class is to spring a generation, who will either perpetuate the manners and customs of their ancestors, or being intellectually, morally and religiously elevated, take their stand among the improved, intelligent nations of the earth….”
What is the Perspective of the Catholic Church(Rev. Samuel Rose-Principal of a Residential School)
How many Residential Schools were built in Canada
What is over 130