Residential Schools and their Effectiveness on Aboriginal People:
As Canadian children today the thought of starting school excited us. We enjoy everything our school system has to offer. Native children many years ago were not excited when the thought of school rose in their mind. Residential schools were a school system set up by the canadian government and run by churches, having the objective of educating aboriginal children (Guerin, 2011, pg 2). Residentials schools were ineffective in their goal of assimilating First Nation children into the European society that once was (Anishinabek, 2013). Native children were continuing to do rituals and their teachings secretely at school, as well as practicing their language both which weren’t …show more content…
The children in the schools learned English and the Christianity beliefs, being one of the main reasons why Europeans opened the schools (Anishinabek, 2013) . The English language would further help the students to develop in society as an average Canadian citizen. This helped bring the natives into the society that surrounded them (Watson, 2010, 9). The children of the school learned many things while there like english and french, christianity denominations and new habits of European life style (Anishinabek, 2013). Although the children may not have adapted and accepted all the things they learned, they did somewhat assimilate to the European life style which was the school’s overall …show more content…
First Nation people have many rituals and teachings such as the moon lodge retreat and smudging. At residential schools the students were not allowed to practice these rituals but that did not stop many of them (Anishinabek, 2013). The residential school system put many of these children into a depressing state since they were taken somewhere away from their family and home (J.R Miller, 2012, pg 22). The rituals were used by the children secretly so their faith was always there among them (J.R Miller, 2012, pg 22). In the movie “Where the Spirit Lives” Amelia practices smudging when she is told her parents have died due to a terrible disease, helping her to get over her loss. The rule of not practicing their traditions at these schools was ineffective as the children found loopholes which lead to them practicing in
As Canadian children today the thought of starting school excited us. We enjoy everything our school system has to offer. Native children many years ago were not excited when the thought of school rose in their mind. Residential schools were a school system set up by the canadian government and run by churches, having the objective of educating aboriginal children (Guerin, 2011, pg 2). Residentials schools were ineffective in their goal of assimilating First Nation children into the European society that once was (Anishinabek, 2013). Native children were continuing to do rituals and their teachings secretely at school, as well as practicing their language both which weren’t …show more content…
The children in the schools learned English and the Christianity beliefs, being one of the main reasons why Europeans opened the schools (Anishinabek, 2013) . The English language would further help the students to develop in society as an average Canadian citizen. This helped bring the natives into the society that surrounded them (Watson, 2010, 9). The children of the school learned many things while there like english and french, christianity denominations and new habits of European life style (Anishinabek, 2013). Although the children may not have adapted and accepted all the things they learned, they did somewhat assimilate to the European life style which was the school’s overall …show more content…
First Nation people have many rituals and teachings such as the moon lodge retreat and smudging. At residential schools the students were not allowed to practice these rituals but that did not stop many of them (Anishinabek, 2013). The residential school system put many of these children into a depressing state since they were taken somewhere away from their family and home (J.R Miller, 2012, pg 22). The rituals were used by the children secretly so their faith was always there among them (J.R Miller, 2012, pg 22). In the movie “Where the Spirit Lives” Amelia practices smudging when she is told her parents have died due to a terrible disease, helping her to get over her loss. The rule of not practicing their traditions at these schools was ineffective as the children found loopholes which lead to them practicing in