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Bezig met laden... A National Crime: The Canadian Government And the Residential School Systemdoor John S. Milloy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "One of the 100 most important Canadian books ever written." -Literary Review of Canada A scholarly, yet accessible, thoroughly-researched history of the evolution and implementation of residential schools in Canada. Another book that should be required reading for all Canadians, even though some of the stories of maltreatment are hard to bear, detailing, as they do, a national system of child abuse. The book wasn't available in any of the libraries near here: I had to get it on interlibrary loan. This possibly says something uncomplimentary about the lack of significance accorded by the general Canadian public to this policy and its consequences to the people and communities who were affected. And one minor gripe - the quality of editing was pretty poor - not what I'd hope for from a university press! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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 finer in existance that the average Indian residential school." -- N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the "circle of civilization," the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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