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Author Milloy, John S., author.

Title A national crime : the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879-1986 / John S. Milloy.

Publication Info. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

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Description xix, 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Manitoba studies in native history, 0826-9416 ; 11
Manitoba studies in native history ; 11. 0826-9416.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Vision: The Circle of Civilized Conditions. 1. The Tuition of Thomas Moore. 2. The Imperial Heritage, 1830 to 1879. 3. The Founding Vision of Residential School Education, 1879 to 1920 -- pt. 2. Reality: The System at Work, 1879 to 1946. 4. "A National Crime": Building and Managing the System, 1879 to 1946. 5. "The Charge of Manslaughter": Disease and Death, 1879 to 1946. 6. "We Are Going to Tell You How We Are Treated": Food and Clothing, 1879 to 1946. 7. The Parenting Presumption: Neglect and Abuse. 8. Teaching and Learning, 1879 to 1946 -- pt. 3. Integration and Guardianship, 1946 to 1986. 9. Integration for Closure: 1946 to 1986. 10. Persistence: The Struggle for Closure. 11. Northern and Arctic Assimilation. 12. The Failure of Guardianship: Neglect and Abuse, 1946 to 1986. Epilogue: Beyond Closure, 1992 to 1998.
Summary "For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the "circle of civilization." The results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse."--BOOK JACKET. ""A National Crime" shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and it documents in detail how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children."--Jacket.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- History.
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Residential schools -- History.
Internats pour Autochtones -- Canada -- Histoire.
Off-reservation boarding schools. (OCoLC)fst01043978
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Indexed Term Native Americans
Boarding schools
Child abuse
Canada
Churches
Race relations
History
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Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
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0887551661
9780887551666
9780887553035
0887553036
9780887555190 (ebook epub)
9780887555213 (ebook pdf)
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