In 19th century, the Canadian government and churches Christianized the aborigines and assimilate them into mainstream society. The government believed that their responsibility educated the aboriginal children for adopting white lifestyles. They compulsorily disunite the children from their indigenous families and sent them into residential schools. The Schools made many dehumanized actions towards aboriginal people that acts were extremely painful to many of the Canadian First Nations. The inhumane treatment demonstrated in the CBC news, “For Residential School Survivors, the Hurt Comes Back”, causes me to reflect on the inhuman actions of the Canadian government towards the First Nation children. The acts of abominable abuse that children
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The church-run residential schools took place sometime in the 1857 until about 1996(Canadian Heritage, 2014). During those years 150, 000 aboriginal children between the ages of 4 and 16 years old attended residential schools and 24% of them died inside the schools by 1907. Residential Schools eliminated all aspects of Aboriginal culture and to assimilate Aboriginals into European life by government obligations. The video emphasizes that the aboriginal children were treated atrociously because of racism and chastised about everything they behaving like Indian.
The merciless abuse is first revealed in the idea of inhumane act that occurs when the aboriginal children suffered the pain of disservice in schools. In more detail, children were abuse in Christian schools because they are born into First Nation families. In the video, Eva Cardinal Soop sobbed out the story of her school life in CBC news,
The church-run residential schools took place sometime in the 1857 until about 1996(Canadian Heritage, 2014). During those years 150, 000 aboriginal children between the ages of 4 and 16 years old attended residential schools and 24% of them died inside the schools by 1907. Residential Schools eliminated all aspects of Aboriginal culture and to assimilate Aboriginals into European life by government obligations. The video emphasizes that the aboriginal children were treated atrociously because of racism and chastised about everything they behaving like Indian.
The merciless abuse is first revealed in the idea of inhumane act that occurs when the aboriginal children suffered the pain of disservice in schools. In more detail, children were abuse in Christian schools because they are born into First Nation families. In the video, Eva Cardinal Soop sobbed out the story of her school life in CBC news,