“Each has a house of her own”: Purpose, Domesticity and Agency of First Nations Women in Canada’s Industrial School System, 1883-1923.

This paper uses the lenses of gender and colonialism to examine the goals and actual outcomes of industrial schools, as well as the experiences of female students in a particular era—the 1880s to the turn of the century. The industrial school system was originally implemented in western Canada to tr...

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Published in:Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR)
Main Author: Nason, Sarah
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta 2014
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Online Access:https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/mruhr/article/view/105
https://doi.org/10.29173/mruhr105