Residential School Reconciliation Essay

In this report it will talk about the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Agreement .) This is an agreement about reconciliation and changing our view of the native Americans while making a stronger country. This report will outline how the passed is in our education systems, and how it has affected Canada as a country and many of the citizens individually.

Canada has formally apologised on multiple occasions for past federal actions yet the governments following action show their lack of being apologetic. The claims the Federal government has made, induce Aboriginals to believe that change will come, yet nothing follows. Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau have both given large speeches to try to reconcile the past, but do not follow up with any meaningful actions. For example, Trudeau promised millions of dollars in funding for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation yet that money has yet to be seen. The government is continuing to make claims to subside the riots but has yet to follow through with any of their dues. Each speech is done to please the public so the government can continue to ignore their responsibilities. Overall, the statement of reconciliation has tried to mend ties with Aboriginal peoples yet it can be seen as a cover blanket to try and hide the government's difficult

Look at the Residential School that whole thing supports my evidence. They wanted to remove all Inuit culture, language, and tradition to the Inuit children. Learning about this know would be heartbreaking to any person, even the government. They just didn’t know about it at the time. This event caused regret, trauma & even PDST. No wonder why the government will continue to forgive and respond to this event. In the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Language and culture of the Aboriginals need to be acknowledged greatly because of their traditions and culture could have been dead by now. They missed so much time to learn about their own traditions and culture but they learned about the Canadian way of living and disallowing them to say or do any type of Aboriginal culture while in the Residential School. In the end, I think that the government should be pushing forward and continue to forgive and regenerate the trust with the

Many First Nation’s lives were impacted greatly by the government's choice to open residential schools, in these schools they would attempt to brainwash Native Americans and force them to change their way of life. The government wanted to build a repopulation of “new Europeans” and they wanted the control. When these children were abused, the government believed that they weren’t involved and ignored the death rate that was rising immensely. The government had the power to figure out why so many children were dying and instead of trying they ignored it and the death toll kept rising. Do you ever ask yourself, what could the government have done to make these schools less dreadful?

Before the nineteenth century, the Aboriginal people had their own way of teaching the children in their community, through organic education. In addition to providing knowledge and skills, organic education kept their culture alive (Ravelli & Webber, 2013: pg. 237). This is because the Aboriginal children would also be taught about their culture and its customs. But the Europeans thought, “Canada’s First Nation peoples were in the way of the relentless onrush of capitalist and industrial expansion (Ravelli & Webber, 2013: pg. 238).” This is when the residential education system was established. Since the organic education was what made the Aboriginal culture

As we are forever sorry for everything that happened to our First Nations People, where can we go next? Reconciliation is a process and takes time, and as a country we promise to provide the resources and opportunities to begin the process of moving towards reconciliation, and healing from the affects of Indian Residential Schools. Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement began on September 19, 2007 and has and will continue to give us the opportunity to move forward in partnership as one country and one community. We apologize and ask for forgiveness for failing the Aboriginal peoples of this country.

In "The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer has some religious characters who break the vows they pledge for, to get a place in the Church. Many characters in the story seem to have an awkward characteristic that the writer did not notice. Why do the religious characters break the vow? How do they break it? For example, the monk was a primary part of the church, but as you keep reading, the characters start to change in ways you could never imagine. Some character do not interact with each other depending upon their social class level. The vows that the religious characters break are the Vow of Poverty, the Vow of Chastity, the Vow of Obedience, and the Vow of Stability.

With the different coping methods residential school survivors used, their kids watched them as they had self-destructing behaviors; some may have mimicked this, and there goes the start of an unhealthy cycle created. Residential school survivors were abused, and this abuse could have been inflicted onto their children, then their grandchildren and so on. This trauma just continues getting passed down and inflicting thousands of people right in front of our eyes. Although non-Aboriginals are not directly affected by residential schools, their ways of knowing gets passed down through generations as well; their views on residential schools and Aboriginals are affected by their family’s thoughts. This

Residential schools in the 1970s were mainly created because they wanted to “Kill the indian in the child,” There were over 130 schools located all across the country that were funded by the government and ran by the churches. Residential schools are not like your normal typical school it’s hell that’s the only word to describe it. First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their homes and put in these schools to assimilate their culture, language and way of life.

Residential Schools: A Case of Aggressive Assimilation The Canadian government assumed that it was accountable for the care and education of Aboriginal children. The Residential School system was developed to ensure the assimilation of every Indigenous child in Canada. These schools were terribly unsafe for children and exhibited horrible living conditions, including abuse, malnutrition and isolation. Conditions in residential schools continue to negatively impact communities, generations later, contributing to violence, alcoholism and surprising statistics seen from Aboriginal communities.

During the 19th century the Canadian government established residential schools under the claim that Aboriginal culture is hindering them from becoming functional members of society. It was stated that the children will have a better chance of success once they have been Christianised and assimilated into the mainstream Canadian culture. (CBC, 2014) In the film Education as We See It, some Aboriginals were interviewed about their own experiences in residential schools. When examining the general topic of the film, conflict theory is the best paradigm that will assist in understanding the social implications of residential schools. The film can also be illustrated by many sociological concepts such as agents of socialization, class

The history of Canada’s Aboriginal people is one of extreme complexity and not something that can be simplified into a single paper. However, the purpose of this essay is to better grasp and understand just one component of the many that make up the history of these people which is the period that residential schools were in place. Residential schools had an immense impact on the Aboriginal people of Canada and the effects are still being felt by many of them to this day. To understand the impacts of these institutions, one must first be aware of the history behind them. The introduction of Canadian Residential Schools, their successfulness, and their lasting outcomes on individuals will be analyzed throughout this essay.

An estimated 1 in 25 children died in residential schools, with an approximate 6000 children who died in total (Maloney, 2016). In reality, many people believe that residential schools are an issue in the past but, do the lingering effects truly exist in our society today? The fact is that there is a lot of controversy surrounding the residential school system and why it was even created in the first place, as it ultimately came crashing down in complete failure. In effect, residential schools impacted many Aboriginals from the negatives effects they caused even if the intended cause was not meant to. Specifically, this paper will examine the detrimental impacts caused by the residential school system through scrutinizing the intent of the education in residential schools, and the short and long-term

Residential Schools Physical abuse, mental abuse, and poor living conditions are just some of the things that students at residential schools had to go through. Residential schools were founded in 1831 and lasted until 1996. The idea of the schools came up from the Canadian government to bring other cultures like Inuit people into our Canadian society. The students had long depressing days in and out of school. In addition, Students had to deal with a lot of medical issues.

Reconciliation has been a somewhat popular issue in Canadian academia and in Canadian society in general. Reconciliation in the Canadian context is defined as a restoration of the relationship between the Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous people due to the historical injustices, that continue to affect Indigenous peoples even to this day, committed by the Government of Canada against the Indigenous peoples. This is a massive undertaking that will require the participation of both Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples alike. A project of this magnitude will not be an easy task to accomplish, as undoing over 100 years of trauma to the Indigenous peoples is not something that can be undone over night, but rather it will take decades to accomplish. There will be many obstacles in the path of reconciliation that will have to be overcome. However, reconciliation is the best opportunity to repair the relationships between the Indigenous peoples and the non-Indigenous peoples because it makes sense for all Canadians to be involved, the Government of Canada is backing the reconciliation process and some work to repair the relationship has already been done and has beneficial results for everyone.