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Indian Boarding / Residential Schools
"Mechanism used in the Canada and in the U.S.
for the Assimilation of First Nations People."
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Indian School Hospitals Under the Office of Indian Affairs
(c.1883-c.1916) "Off-reservation boarding schools were considered by many government and boarding school officials to be
major successes in forcing Native American children to adopt the ways of white "civilization" and
simultaneously to abandon their own Native traditions. Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was a
school of this type..."
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Cumberland County Historical Society: "The Purpose of the Cumberland County Historical Society is :
'To collect, preserve, interpret and promote research of the
history of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, from the first
Native Americans to the present'."
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879 - 1918)
"Mention “Carlisle” and invariably the response will include some
reference to Jim Thorpe or the Carlisle Indian School. Founded
by Richard Henry Pratt, the school was the first off-reservation
government boarding school for Native American Indian children.
Carlisle served as the model for dozens of schools throughout
the U.S., some of which are still in existence."
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Residential Schools "Otherwise known as Industrial Schools,
these schools were set up across Canada to educate Native children
and try to erase the Native culture. The schools were a source of
controversy when they were opened and still raise controversy today.
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The Treaty 7 Tribal Council Home Page "Treaty Seven was
a peace treaty made between two nations - the tribes of the
Blackfoot Confederacy, (Siksika, Piikani (Peigan) and Kainaiwa
(Blood)), Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee), the Stoney (Bearspaw, Chiniki,
and Wesley/Goodstoney) and Her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissioners,
the honourable David Laird, Lieutenant Governor and Indian
Superintendent of the North-West Territories, and James
Farquharson Macleod, C.M.G., Commissioner of the North-West
Mounted Police."
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Native Indian Residential School Task Force
"From their establishment in the late 1800's until their
closure in the early 1980's, the fourteen Native Indian
residential schools in British Columbia were attended by
thousands of First nations people."
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Indian Residential School Survivors Society
"The Indian Residential School Survivors Society began in 1994 as
a working committee of the First Nations Summit. The First Nation
Summit is composed of fifty-one B.C. First Nations governmental
and political bodies, representing more than 70% of all aboriginal
populations in British Columbia. As of March 2002 we formally
became the Indian Residential School Survivors Society."
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NIICHRO National Indian & Inuit
Community Health Representatives Organization
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Indian Residential Schools Resolution ~ FAQs
"The web site deals with subject matter that may cause some readers
to trigger (suffer trauma caused by remembering or reliving past
abuse). The Government of Canada recognizes the need for safety
measures to minimize the risk associated with triggering."
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