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A National Crime : The Canadian Government and the Residential School System.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Studies in Native History SeriesPublisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2017Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (465 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780887555190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A National CrimeDDC classification:
  • 371.829/97071
LOC classification:
  • E96.5 .M555 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword by Mary Jane Logan McCallum -- Preface to the 1999 Edition -- Acknowledgements, 1999-2017 -- Introduction -- Part 1. Vision: The Circle of Civilized Conditions -- Chapter 1. The Tuition of Thomas Moore -- Chapter 2. The Imperial Heritage, 1830 to 1879 -- Chapter 3. The Founding Vision of Residential School Education, 1879 TO 1920 -- Part 2. Reality: The System at Work, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 4. "A National Crime": Building and Managing the System, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 5. "The Charge of Manslaughter": Disease and Death, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 6. "We Are Going to Tell You How We Are Treated": Food and Clothing, 1879 to 1946 -- Photographs -- Chapter 7. The Parenting Presumption: Neglect and Abuse -- Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning, 1879 to 1946 -- Part 3. Integration and Guardianship, 1946 to 1986 -- Chapter 9. Integration for Closure, 1946 to 1986 -- Chapter 10. Persistence: The Struggle for Closure -- Chapter 11. Northern and Arctic Assimilation -- Chapter 12. The Failure of Guardianship: Neglect and Abuse, 1946 to 1986 -- Epilogue. Beyond Closure, 1992 to 1998 -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Indigenous children.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword by Mary Jane Logan McCallum -- Preface to the 1999 Edition -- Acknowledgements, 1999-2017 -- Introduction -- Part 1. Vision: The Circle of Civilized Conditions -- Chapter 1. The Tuition of Thomas Moore -- Chapter 2. The Imperial Heritage, 1830 to 1879 -- Chapter 3. The Founding Vision of Residential School Education, 1879 TO 1920 -- Part 2. Reality: The System at Work, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 4. "A National Crime": Building and Managing the System, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 5. "The Charge of Manslaughter": Disease and Death, 1879 to 1946 -- Chapter 6. "We Are Going to Tell You How We Are Treated": Food and Clothing, 1879 to 1946 -- Photographs -- Chapter 7. The Parenting Presumption: Neglect and Abuse -- Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning, 1879 to 1946 -- Part 3. Integration and Guardianship, 1946 to 1986 -- Chapter 9. Integration for Closure, 1946 to 1986 -- Chapter 10. Persistence: The Struggle for Closure -- Chapter 11. Northern and Arctic Assimilation -- Chapter 12. The Failure of Guardianship: Neglect and Abuse, 1946 to 1986 -- Epilogue. Beyond Closure, 1992 to 1998 -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Indigenous children.

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