Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
Author :
Publisher : Lorimer
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1459416759
ISBN-13 : 9781459416758
Rating : 4/5 (758 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools by : Melanie Florence

Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools written by Melanie Florence and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous children is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Through historical photographs, documents and first-person narratives from people who survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed in Canada with the aim of assimilating Indigenous people. In 1879, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald commissioned a report that led to residential schools across Canada. First Nations and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools where they were dressed in uniforms, their hair was cut, they were forbidden to speak their native language and they were often subjected to physical and psychological abuse. The schools were run by churches and funded by the federal government. The last federally funded residential school closed in 1996. The horrors that many children endured at residential schools did not go away. It took decades for people to speak out, but with the support of the Assembly of First Nations and Inuit organizations, former residential school students took the federal government and the churches to court. Their cases led to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history. In 2008, Prime Minister Harper formally apologized to former native residential school students for the atrocities they suffered and the role the government played in setting up the school system. The agreement included the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has worked to document the experience. More than five years after the TRC Report was released, there have been reports of unmarked graves of children being discovered at the site of former residential schools. This updated edition includes some of those findings and examines what has and what still has to be done in regards to the TRC Report’s Calls to Action.


Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools Related Books

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Melanie Florence
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-08 - Publisher: Lorimer

GET EBOOK

Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous children is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Métis and Inuit pe
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Melanie Florence
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-15 - Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

GET EBOOK

Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit
Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Melanie Florence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-15 - Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

GET EBOOK

Over more than 100 years, the Canadian government took 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and placed them in residential scho
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Pamela Hickman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-21 - Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

GET EBOOK

During the Second World War, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians had their civil rights, homes, possessions, and freedom taken away. This visual-packed book tells th
Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Arlene Chan
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-20 - Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

GET EBOOK

The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada in the mid-1800s searching for gold and a better life. They found jobs in forestry, mining, and other resource in