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The Indian Act was created, which restricted the rights of many indigenous people, such as denying the First Nations right to vote, restricting their right to their culture, religion and language. The Indian Act also created reserves for the Indigenous people, which also had restrictions such as not being able to leave the reserve without permission.
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In the 1880's, because of The Indian Act, the government supported Residential schools have started opening. By this time, in the 1880's, a dozen schools were open.
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The purpose of these schools were to get rid of Indigenous cultures, replacing it with the European-Canadian culture, cultural genocide.
The promise of the government was that the Aboriginal children would receive a good education, but rather it would make them "assimilate" into the European-Canadian culture, while abandoning their very own. The people running these schools were also poorly trained and taught, which is inadequate. Therefore, the government was lying about the proper education. -
The children of the schools had no record, so there's only approximates of how many died.
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Both of these powers wanted to get rid of the Indigenous cultures, so they began a partnership, operating these horrific schools.
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The Canadian government asserting aggressively will help their cause of getting rid of Indigenous culture.
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There were also 10,000+ students at this time.
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As some rumours of abuse in the Residential schools emerge, things don't really start to change until the late 1960's-70's
with The Indian Act changing positively, allowing the Indigenous people to express their cultures, but only bit by bit.
The Indian Act gave back the right to vote to the Indigenous people again. As time went on, Residential schools closed and the people had their rights back again. -
Reason for the closure of some of these scools, being that the government can no longer fund them, leaving with lesser schools.
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the Federal government begins to control the remaining residential schools.
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The last Residential school closes in Saskatchewan.
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There are still emotional and physical trauma to survivors from these schools, which led to apologies of the government and the church.
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Info:
thecanadianenyclopedia.ca
indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca
aadnc-aadnc.gc.ca
YouTube Pictures:
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
Manitoba Archives
mhs.mb.ca / Manitoba Historical Society
anglican.ca
