Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization

• Published in: Canadian journal of law and society
• Main Authors: Nagy, Rosemary, Sehdev, Robinder Kaur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2012
• Subjects: Law; Sociology and Political Science; Canada; Indian; Handle The; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjls.27.1.067; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0829320100000521

“Home” to more than 150,000 children from the 1870s until 1996, the residential school system was aimed at “killing the Indian in the child” and assimilating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into white settler society. It was, in short, a genocidal policy, operated jointly by the federal gov...