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Historical Background: The Indian Act and the Indian Residential Schools
Introduction: Stolen Lives
Dispossession, Destruction, and the Reserves
Defining the Indian
Banning Indigenous Culture
Traditional Education
The idea that Western culture was superior and that the Indigenous Peoples needed to be Christianized and civilized came from the biases of Europeans and their unwillingness to appreciate the complex, largely unwritten teaching processes inside indigenous communities.
Aggressive Assimilation
Legislation for the Residential Schools
The Role of the Churches
Building the Indian Residential Schools System
“Until There Is Not a Single Indian in Canada”
