Finding the missing : residential school cemeteries for indigenous children in Canada : a national strategy for identification, recording, preservation, and commemoration
Indian Residential Schools (IRS) separated children from their families with the goal of acculturating them to dominant Canadian society by suppressing Indigenous languages, traditions, and spirituality. Enforced residential schooling was the determined assimilationist policy of the Canadian government for approximately 130 years, with boarding schools for Indigenous children in operation in all parts of the country from the 1880s to the mid 1990s. Despite these goals the schools were consistently underfunded and often badly managed by the government of the day; abuse and disease were rampant and death rates were high. The schools became the subject of litigation in the 1990s. The resulting 2007 IRS Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) between former students, and jointly; the Government of Canada and the churches that administered the schools was the largest legal settlement agreement in Canadian history. A truth finding and reconciliation process was one element of this multi-faceted agreement. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was tasked to investigate all aspects of the residential school experience and to address the past historic injustices of forced assimilation, including school deaths.
Maass, Alexandra
Finding the missing : residential school cemeteries for indigenous children in Canada : a national strategy for identification, recording, preservation, and commemoration. Indian Residential Schools (IRS) separated children from their families with the goal of acculturating them to dominant Canadian society by suppressing Indigenous languages, traditions, and spirituality. Enforced residential schooling was the determined assimilationist policy of the Canadian government for approximately 130 years, with boarding schools for Indigenous children in operation in all parts of the country from the 1880s to the mid 1990s. Despite these goals the schools were consistently underfunded and often badly managed by the government of the day; abuse and disease were rampant and death rates were high. The schools became the subject of litigation in the 1990s. The resulting 2007 IRS Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) between former students, and jointly; the Government of Canada and the churches that administered the schools was the largest legal settlement agreement in Canadian history. A truth finding and reconciliation process was one element of this multi-faceted agreement. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was tasked to investigate all aspects of the residential school experience and to address the past historic injustices of forced assimilation, including school deaths.
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