Residential 'Indian' Schools in Quebec

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how residential schooling affected Aboriginal or Inuit women in Quebec. The paper begins by describing Quebec's First Nations and how the white population related to them. It then discusses Quebec's residential 'Indian' schools, their ideology and peculiarity. The paper also describes the original purposes of these schools and the impacts that they had on families.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Contemporary Issues
Quebec's First Nations
Quebec Residential 'Indian' Schools
Ideology and Particularity
Assimilation versus Other Motivations
Impacts upon Families
Last Remarks

From the Paper:

"Cultural revival, as a positive set of developments among Aboriginal Canadians across Canada, has had different imprints upon Aboriginal women, Native womanhood of yore universally glorified, little room left for the reality of Native women whose families, by choice, were indeed Christians, their ways of life different, those for whom the attendance of residential school could involve relatively little adjustment, some of their experiences of school remarkably positive towards continuing involvement in Roman Catholic, Anglican or other Christian activities. For instance, Kim Anderson's scholarship is a contribution to explaining patterns of Aboriginal society as could be effectively removed by experiences such as residential education in schools that did reject the culture from which students came. (2000) However, where are the stories of thousands of Aboriginal women in particular and especially those of Quebec? Is the testimony of women who were not traumatized by their experiences of boarding school of no significance? What of those sent to parochial schools by their families in keeping with other Quebecois women? Where are their stories of residential education? What do they now recommend for the education of Aboriginal youth? Why are these quite usual and numerous Aboriginal Canadians invisible in the literature of Native Studies?"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, Kim. Recognition of Being - Reconstructing Native Womanhood. Toronto: Second Story, 2000.
• Brant, Clare C. "Native Ethics and Rules of Behaviour." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 35. (1990): 534-539.
• Chansonneuve, D. Reclaiming Connections - Understanding Residential School Trauma among Aboriginal People - a Resource Manual. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2005.
• Chrisjohn, Roland, Shari Young & M.Maraun. The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in The Indian Residential School Experience in Canada. Penticton: Thaysus Books, 1997.
• De Santis, Solange. "Ceremony Reunites Native Pupils." The Anglican Journal. March 1, 2006.

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