Residential schools By Jason Jack Jacob The Purpose

Residential schools By: Jason, Jack, Jacob

The Purpose • Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro. Canadian culture. • Since the last residential school closed in 1996, former students have pressed for recognition and restitution, resulting in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement in 2007 and a formal public apology by Prime minister Stphen Harper in 2008.

Who Was Affected? • Indigenous communities, often with church support, and since 1998 with government financial assistance, have been carrying out the difficult work of supporting their members with residual issues surrounding the family breakdowns, violence and aimlessness brought about by residential schools. • Beginning in the late 1990 s, former students pressed, often through litigation, for acknowledgment of, and compensation for, their suffering. In 2005 the federal government established a $1. 9 -billion compensation package for the survivors of abuse at residential schools, and in 2007 the federal government and the churches that had operated the schools agreed to provide financial compensation to former students under the Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

When did they start? • Residential schools were started in the 1840’s by the churches in Canada, and they eventually ended in 1996 when the last residential school was closed.

The Conditions • Such a harsh regime naturally provoked resistance, both by Indigenous students and adults. Some children refused to co-operate and sabotaged the operations of the kitchen or classroom, stole food and supplies, ran away, or, in extreme cases, burned down their schools. Their parents and political leaders protested the schools' harsh conditions and pedagogical shortcomings, though their objections were mostly ignored. By the 1940 s it was obvious to both the government and most missionary bodies that the schools were ineffective, and Indigenous protests helped to secure a change in policy.

Conclusion • In conclusion residential schools were definitely a terrible event in our history and it simply doesn't’t get talked about enough. The government doesn't realize the damage they caused and yes they apologized and supported them with funding however that will the change the atrocities perpetrated in the residential schools.

Sources • yclopedia. ca/en/article/residential-schools