Residential Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Hanson
Description
Brief history of the schools in Canada and the legacy of cultural abuse.
Discusses the issue of institutional abuse in Canada, provides assessments of possible approaches to meeting the needs of survivors, and makes recommendations in continuing efforts to develop more effective policies and programs.
Looks at the proposed use of a life-course approach for research into the ongoing disadvantage of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 5.
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Recommended for students in Grade 10 and above.
Discusses the exploitive circumstances of recruitment and how these methods fall within the definition of "trafficking in persons" under Canadian criminal law.