Residential Schools in Canada
Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia
The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's ...
Canada's Residential Schools Were a Horror | Scientific American
Founded to carry out the genocide of Indigenous people, they created conditions that killed thousands of children.
Residential Schools in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture.
Residential School History - NCTR
For a period of more than 150 years, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation children were taken from their families and communities to attend schools which ...
The History and Impact of Residential Schools | PBS
The reality is that governments and churches used residential schools to systematically separate, abuse and indoctrinate Indigenous children.
Residential schools in Canada - National historic designations
The Residential School System has impacted multiple generations of Indigenous peoples, with long-term detrimental effects on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ...
The Residential School System - Indigenous Foundations
The term residential schools refers to an extensive school system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches that had the nominal objective ...
History of Residential Schools | Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Residential schools operated in Canada for more than 160 years, with upwards of 150000 children passing through their doors. Every province and territory, ...
Canada's residential schools | CMHR
In this guide, you will find links to resources related to the residential school system and the stories of children who were taken from their families and ...
Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out ...
Archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at a residential school in Canada, bringing new attention to one of the ...
A documentary investigates deaths of indigenous children at ... - NPR
NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat about their new documentary, "Sugarcane," about Indian residential schools in Canada.
Residential Schools and their Lasting Impacts
The Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario, was the first to open in 1831, and the Gordon Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, being the ...
Bringing closure to the legacy of Indian Residential Schools lies at the heart of reconciliation between Indigenous peoples who attended these schools.
The Residential School System National Historic Event
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada described the residential school system as a cultural genocide. Residential schools ...
'Cultural genocide': the shameful history of Canada's residential ...
As of September 2021*, more than 1,300 unmarked graves have been found across the sites of five former residential schools. Most of the bodies ...
Canadian investigations into residential schools for Indigenous ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Inuit on the occasion of the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Inuvik, Northwest ...
The goal of Indian residential schools was to assimilate Indians into society. · The Canadian government operated Indian residential schools in partnership ...
The dark legacy of Canada's residential schools, where ... - YouTube
Last year, archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at a residential school in Canada, bringing new attention to ...
Canada: UN expert decries “appalling” legacy of Residential ... - ohchr
GENEVA (10 March 2023) – The testimonies of survivors of Canada's residential school system were appalling, a UN expert said today, ...
Residential schools and reconciliation
The website deals with topics that may cause trauma. Former Residential School students can call 1-866-925-4419 for emotional crisis referral ...