Canadian Indian residential school system
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title:
Canadian Indian residential school system
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The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches. The school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and religion in order to assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, around 150,000 children
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Schools to assimilate Indigenous children
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
date created:
2004-09-01T16:42:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:54:16Z
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