Purpose of Residential Schools

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Residential Schools

This is Canada's official apology for Residential Schools

1. What is an apology?

2. Who is Prime Minister Harper?

3. What did he say were the 2 main purposes of Residential schools?

4. What did he say caused the government to act in such a bad way?

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What was the Indian residential school system?

5.Who ran the schools for the government?

6. When we studied treaties, we read in the treaties that having a school on the reserve was a treaty right. Residential schools though were commonly built far away from reserves. Why would the government have the schools built far from reserves?

7. A definition of culture is here.  If you were separated from your parents and family, forced to speak Aruak and to follow their customs and traditions, and follow their religion, from a young age, but then returned to your parents and family as an older teenager, would this be a problem? Explain.