POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Duncan Campbell Scott, Murray Sinclair
30 Sep 2015
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Pol101 - lecture 3 - the indian residential school system in canada. Justice murray sinclair chair of the truth and reconciliation of canada. Education was important to aboriginal people from the outset of the confederation in. First treaty ordered the natives surrender the title of their lands for financial payments. First nations asked that there be an education clause. To build schools on each of the reserves - Confederation was changing the relationship between the natives and the canadian govt. Government believed that the aboriginals were uncivilised and were socially - culturally intellectually inferior. Debates of 1883 - he is simply a savage that can read and write. So take away the children from the parents and take their children to industrial schools. Industrial schools were used for delinquents to teach them physical labour jobs. They dressed up the kids in the before photo as savages and after photos as civilised children.
