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Litigating Aboriginal Culture

Joseph Eliot Magnet

出版	Juriliber, 2005
主題	Law / ConstitutionalLaw / Indigenous LawSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Canadian StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN	09193115399780919311534
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LXk7AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

One-hundred-twenty years ago, when Queen Victoria was old and Canada young, the new Dominion embarked upon a controversial social experiment. Parliament appropriated funds to establish a network of residential schools for Canada’s Aboriginal children. The Government then operated the schools with the aid of major Canadian Churches. This system was designed to absorb Aboriginal children into the culture and language of Canada’s surrounding non Aboriginal societies. Canadian officials believed that the residential schools were capable of "civilizing" the Indians, and thereby eradicating "all lingering traces of native custom and tradition". With the aid of Church partners the Department of Indian Affairs set out to "kill the Indian in the child". The Department intended that Indian traditions would stay dead by "severing the artery of culture that ran between generations". ...