ISBN:
0887557899
,
9780887557897
Language:
English
Pages:
xliii, 409 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates
,
illustrations
,
23 cm
Edition:
[New edition]
Edition:
Issued also in electronic formats
Series Statement:
Critical studies in native history 11
Series Statement:
Critical studies in native history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Milloy, John Sheridan National crime
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Milloy, John S. A national crime
DDC:
371.829/97071
Keywords:
Indians of North America Education
;
History
;
Indians of North America Social conditions
;
Indians of North America Government relations
;
Indians, Treatment of
;
Off-reservation boarding schools
;
Kanada
;
Indianer
;
Internat
;
Erziehung
;
Unterprivilegierung
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Geschichte 1879-1986
Abstract:
"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."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-396) and index
,
Issued also in electronic formats.
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