POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ambivalence, Fiduciary, 1969 White Paper
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Justice murray sinclair first aboriginal judge and chair of the indian residential school truth and reconciliation commission of canada. Settlement agreement only had to do with schools related to the government of canada and there were many other schools that were affiliated with churches. Education was important to aboriginal people from the outset of. Treaty i 1870; redrafted to a clause where her majesty agrees to maintain a school on each reserve whenever the indians of the reserve should desire it". The government belief was that aboriginal people were uncivilized" and were socially, culturally and intellectually inferior. Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from parental influence and the only way to do that is to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of white men". Plan: multigenerational approach remove children from their families .
