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60's scoop
Social workers would actually scoop children from reserves. They believed that what they were doing was in the best interests of the children. They felt that the taking away Indian children from reserves would save them from being really poor, dirty health conditions, bad housing, and not enough vitamins in their food. -
Residential schools/1844
In 1844, the Bagot of the united province of Canada recommended training students in “…as many manual labour or industrial schools as possible…in such schools isolated from the influence of their parents, pupils would imperceptibly acquire the manners, habits and customs of civilized life. -
violence agaisnt women
The Highway of Tears murders is a series of killings and disappearances of Indian women along the 720 km section of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, BC, from 1969 until 2011. -
Reservations and their issues.
At a time when there's a spotlight on America's richest 1%, a look at the country's 310 Indian reservations--where many of America's poorest 1% live--can be more enlightening. To explain the poverty of the reservations, people usually point to alcoholism, corruption or school-dropout rates, not to mention the long distances to jobs and the dusty undeveloped land that doesn’t seem good for growing much.
