Introduction to Residential Schools
What are Residential Schools
Who were part of the school
Where were the schools
When were residential schools running
Why were Residential Schools made
How did they run them
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Aboriginals were the students
The parents were forced to send their kids to these schools
Ran by Anglican Catholic, United and
Presbyterian Churches
Teach the aboriginals to speak English
Religion
Teach the aboriginal kids skills
Boys learned forestry and farming
Girls learned sewing, laundry and cooking
Christianity
Rules and Policies
Cannot do anything that was
related their past
Indian Act
Speak their original language
Wear their old clothes
Cannot runaway and must live at the school
Passed 1876
The government controlled the lifestyles
of Aboriginals and forced them to send
them to the residential schools
Built them far away from their
homeland, decreasing their chances to run
back home
In every province and territory except
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
First one opened in Brantford Ontario, 1831
System of residential schools ran for over a century
Last one closed in 1996, in Saskatchewan