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Residential school is for educating and caring for aboriginal people in Canada. Canadian government believed it was the best chance for success was to learn English and adopt Christianity and Canadian customs and developed a policy called "aggressive assimilation" to be taught at church-run, government-funded industrial schools.
Residential schools were federally run, under the Department of Indian Affairs. Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture.
The government felt children were easier to mold than adults, and the concept of a boarding school was the best way to prepare them for life in mainstream society. The purpose of the residential schools was to eliminate all aspects of Aboriginal culture. Students had their hair cut short, they were dressed in uniforms, and their days were strictly regimented by timetables. Students who spoke their native language would get beaten. Students also experienced sexual abuse.
About 150,000 children are believed to have attended a residential school over the course of the system's existence. The children and grandchildren of residential school survivors often bear the brunt of what previous generations suffered through. There are currently 80,000 residential school survivors alive in Canada.
Intergenerational trauma, or transgenerational trauma, is what happens when untreated trauma-related stress experienced by survivors is passed on to second and subsequent generations.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard graphic testimony from survivors who detailed physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Their children talked about the intergenerational trauma they suffered as a result.
Children were traumatized when they were taken from their parents and placed into either government-funded, church-controlled, residential learning institutions or into foster homes. Many children suffered horrific abuse while in these homes and institutions. And parents and communities were traumatized when their children were taken away from them with little or no idea if or when they would return. Self-destructive behaviours can result from unresolved trauma. Depression, anxiety, family violence, suicidal and homicidal thoughts and addictions are some of the behaviours our mental health therapists see when working with clients who have experienced direct or intergenerational trauma and it exists because the client is having a difficult time dealing with the pain of remembering the past, or trying to survive an abusive situation now.
The child may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. The only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men. My stakeholder(people in my home country) would think that it isn't right to train kids in their(white men) way. Every individual has its own policy of doing things. They shouldn't have authority to the Indigenous people.
Canadian society should address the legacy of residential schools in keeping with the Commission's recommendations, including an apology by the government, a focus on healing, development of community-based dispute resolution models and resolution-focussed litigation strategies and Restoring Dignity