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Imagining the Residential Schools—Dialogues & Monologues 1744 – 1931

March 13, 2011

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Separating Aboriginal children from their parents, training them up in the ways of the Europeans:  that was scarcely a new idea when it was adopted as Canadian policy late in the nineteen century.  However the earlier efforts had stumbled over two realities. The first was that Aboriginal people were in the beginning an independent people […]