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A national crime : the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 / John S. Milloy ; with a foreword by Mary Jane Logan McCallum.
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- ISBN: 9780887557897 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xliii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Anniversary edition.
- Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2017.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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- Chicago Distribution CenterWith the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more Canadians than ever are aware of the ugly history of Canada’s residential schools. Nearly twenty years before, UMP published John S. Milloy’s A National Crime, a groundbreaking history of the schools that exposed details of the system to thousands of readers. This reissue includes a new foreword by a scholar in the vanguard of Indigenous historians in Canada, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, of the Munsee Delaware Nation.
- Chicago Distribution CenterWith the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more Canadians than ever are aware of the ugly history of Canadaâs residential schools. Nearly twenty years before, UMP published John S. Milloyâs A National Crime, a groundbreaking history of the schools that exposed details of the system to thousands of readers. This reissue includes a new foreword by a scholar in the vanguard of Indigenous historians in Canada, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, of the Munsee Delaware Nation.
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 - The University of North Carolina Press
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.
- The University of North Carolina Press
âI am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.ââEdward 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.ââN. 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 âcircle of civilizationâ; 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.
