Residential school

Mr. Speaker, I am standing in front of you today and apologizing to former students of boarding school in India. The treatment of children in Indian boarding schools is a tragic chapter in our history. The two main objectives of the residential school system are to eliminate children from families, families, traditions and culture and integrate them into mainstream culture. These aims are based on the assumption that indigenous people's culture and spiritual beliefs are inferior and unfair. In fact, some people became famous for being told that "an Indian who killed a child". We are now aware that it is wrong to separate our children. We apologize for doing so because we are making gaps from many rich and vibrant cultures and traditions to many lives and local communities. We now recognize that as we separate our children from their families, many people will fully develop their children and impair their ability to sow generations.

Until the last school was closed in 1996, the Indian residential school system was created by the Canadian government in the mid-1980s. The purpose of the housing school system is to educate and absorb the Christianity of children, the cultural norms of Europe - Canada, the knowledge base. Assimilation is a process of social integration that requires different, often hegemonic, cultural or social approaches, through selection or necessity. Most schools are funded by the federal government and are operated by various Christian churches. From 1920 to 1948, indigenous children from 4 to 16 years old must participate. There are 139 federal government funded Indian boarding schools in Canada, 18 of which are in British Columbia.