Canada's Residential Schools: the Legacy - 9780773546592

Canada's Residential Schools: the LegacyThe Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5\nAuthor(s): Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773546592, 978-0773546592\nSynopsis\nBetween 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to \""civilize and Christianize\"" Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities. For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, and daily life was highly regimented. Aboriginal languages and cultures were denigrated and suppressed. Education and technical training too often gave way to the drudgery of doing the chores necessary to make the schools self-sustaining. Child neglect w.