Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Newfoundland And Labrador
20 Feb 2018
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Purpose: educate and care for aboriginal people, learn english, adopted christianity and canadian customs. If they adopted to canadian customs, the lifestyle of their aboriginal heritage would be abolished an in a few generations they would become regular citizens canadian citizens: the mandate of the schools was to civilize the savages. Students: 130 schools throughout the country in every province, but p. e. i. , new foundland, and. Were discouraged from speaking their first language or practising native traditions. English: were unable to function in urban setting, didn"t have skills to help parents. Thousands of kids died in residential schools: fires, abuse, disease, suicide, kids died escaping, they claim that 4 thousands, but estimates are 50,000 students died. Inability to parent their own families: causes a cycle of an inability to parent, that carries on generation to generation, problems with drugs, alcohol, anger, depression, loss of culture and language.
