“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing...
Indigenous peoples--Education
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Auteur:Milloy, John S., McCallum, Mary Jane LoganSommaire: - Auteur:Fontaine, Phil, Craft, AiméeSommaire:
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred...
- Auteur:Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commission ofSommaire:
Between 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...
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