Historical Studies in Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 1995, pp. 45-69
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Discusses government policy, the relationship between the Federal government, its officials and missionaries, and the impact of the government's move away from residential to local schools. The article includes the results of interviews with former Indian agents.
Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.