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- Title
"A Continuation of Residential Schools": Integration as a Strategy of Epistemicide, 1960-2005.
- Authors
LITTLE, TARISA
- Abstract
For over a century, the Government of Canada sent Indigenous children across Canada to residential schools to assimilate, Christianize, and “civilize” Indigenous people into Settler society. Assimilation became official government policy in 1876 with the passing of the Indian Act, which gave the Canadian state the power to govern all aspects of Indigenous people’s lives. In the 1980s, many Indigenous people demanded recognition of the injustices and abuse experienced by many residential school survivors. Additionally, many scholars have looked at the injustices and abuse in residential schools as an overt attempt to erase Indigenous culture. However, few have investigated the continuation of epistemicidal policies afterward. Through a case-study of Treaty 7 communities, this article focuses on the post-residential school era and argues that the schooling provided by the Canadian government during the period of integration represents another attempt to subvert Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies.
- Subjects
OFF-reservation boarding schools; NATIVE American children; EDUCATION of Native Americans; SOCIAL integration; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); ETHNOSCIENCE; HISTORY of education; CANADIAN history; NATIVE American history
- Publication
American Indian Quarterly, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 3, p223
- ISSN
0095-182X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/aiq.2023.a917904