Exploring the Current day Impact of the Canadian Indian Residential School System

When people talk about serious inequality and human rights abuses, Canada rarely thinks (as broadly as possible) these ideas as a country. But, in fact, by reviewing the Canadian history, we can find some of the most serious human rights violations, and even the most common examples, even in our time and in recent times. For many people, this may be a surprise, but for others, especially Canadian locals, we can think that this is well understood.

In Canada, Indian boarding school system is a network of indigenous boarding schools. This network is funded by the Government of Indian Government of the Canadian Government and is managed by the Christian Church. The school system was created to release children from the influence of their own culture and absorb them into the mainstream Canadian culture. Approximately 30% of indigenous children (about 150,000 people) were placed in boarding schools nationwide as this system existed for more than 100 years. : 2-3 Because the past record is incomplete, the number of deaths related to school is unknown, but the estimated value has increased from 3,200 to 6,000.

From the 19th century to the 20th century, the Canadian federal government's Indian Ministry officially developed the Indian residential school system as an agent to absorb a wide range of policies that indigenous Canadian people enter into European Canadian society It encouraged. This policy is carried out with the support of various Christian churches, and they manage many schools. In the process of this system, about 30% (about 150,000) of local children were placed in boarding schools across the country, the last school was closed in 1996. The situation of boarding school students has long been controversial.