The Impact of Residential Schools on Canadian Children.
Residential schools were an extensive school system supported by the Canadian government, and administered by churches (Hanson). The Canadian government began to establish residential schools across Canada in the 1880’s. There were approximately 130 residential schools for aboriginal children of different communities across Canada (CBC) This essay will examine the residential school system.

The Residential school system in Canada was a system devoted to providing a disciplined based ideal that promoted the rejection of the aboriginal culture in favor of the then dominant white European population. The teaching strategies that were encouraged ranged from pulling children as young as six away from their parents to mental, physical and sexual abuse. The Residential schools were run.

These are personal stories of people who were a part of the residential school system. Boarding School Life By Shirley Bear I went to the All Saints School in Prince Albert from 1948 to 1951. I was a big girl of eleven at the time. One of my jobs was to administer cod liver oil to each of the students. The students would line up with their mouths open. I would go down the line with a big can.

Response to residential schools The movement for redress and early government responses Until recently, the history of neglect and abuse in residential schools was largely unknown in Canada. Beginning in the late 1980s, Aboriginal groups filed lawsuits demanding compensation from the federal government for residential school abuse. This continued in the early 1990s, when Aboriginal leaders.

Aboriginal Healing Methods for Residential School Abuse and Intergenerational Effects: A Review of the Literature Shelley Goforth Calgary, Alberta Abstract Residential school abuse and its intergenerational effects have created devastating impacts on entire Aboriginal communities. Much has been written about the history and experiences of Aborigi-nal people who attended residential schools.

But the residential schools were no elite boarding schools, and for many students the physical punishment experienced in the residential schools was physical abuse. Rather than preparing students for life after schooling was complete, a mixture of willful neglect and abuse negatively impacted many residential school students for the rest of their lives.

Residential school survivor Lorna Standingready is comforted by a fellow survivor in the audience during the closing ceremony of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.