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• Title:They came for the children : Canada, Aboriginal peoples, and residential schools.
  
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• Variant Title: Canada, Aboriginal peoples, and residential schools
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
  
• Published/Created:Winnipeg, Manitoba : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2012.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER T78 T44 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential Schools--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Canada--Residential schools.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--History.
  Indigenous peoples--Abuse of--Canada.
  Indigenous children--Abuse of--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Crimes against--Canada.
  Indigenous children--Crimes against--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Government relations.
  
• Description:111 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:For over a century, generations of Aboriginal children were separated from their parents and raised in overcrowded, underfunded, and often unhealthy residential schools across Canada. They were commonly denied the right to speak their language and told their cultural beliefs were sinful. Some students did not see their parents for years. Others - the victims of scandalously high death rates - never made it back home. Even by the standards of the day, discipline often was excessive. Lack of supervision left students prey to sexual predators. To put it simply: the needs of tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were neglected routinely. Far too many children were abused far too often. But this story is about more than neglect and abuse. Those painful stories rightfully have captured national headlines. They are central to the story this book tells. But there is more to tell. Introduction
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781100199962
  1100199969
  
• Contents:Preface
  Introduction
  To Christianize and civilize: Canada's residential schools
  School days: the residential school experience
  Residential schools in the North and the Arctic
  The experience of the Métis and residential schools
  The staff experience
  The continuing legacy of residential schools
  Conclusions
  Appendix A
  Endnotes
  References
  Sources of quotations in captions.