TY - BOOK ID - 77892011 TI - A national crime : the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 PY - 1999 SN - 1283090554 9786613090553 0887553036 9780887553035 9780887554155 0887554156 9780887555190 0887555195 0887551661 9780887551666 0887556469 9780887556463 9781283090551 6613090557 9780887555213 0887555217 9780887557897 0887557899 PB - Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, DB - UniCat KW - Off-reservation boarding schools KW - Indians of North America KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - First Nations (North America) KW - Indians of the United States KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Native Americans KW - North American Indians KW - Indian residential schools KW - Non-reservation boarding schools KW - Non-reservation schools KW - Off-reservation Indian boarding schools KW - Off-reservation Indian schools KW - Off-the-reservation boarding schools KW - Residential schools, Indian KW - Boarding schools KW - History. KW - Education KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Social conditions. KW - Government relations. KW - Government relations KW - Residential Schools, Canada, Canadian Goverment, Indigenous, First Nations, Indians, History, Reconciliation. KW - residential school. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892011 AB - “I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948) 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. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children. ER -