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The Tyee – To Break Residential Schools' Dark Legacy, Understand Why

25.9.13

The Tyee – To Break Residential Schools' Dark Legacy, Understand Why: In A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System -- 1879 to 1986, historian John S. Milloy says early proponents of Indian residential schools believed they would be the "most efficacious educational instrument" to assimilate Indians into civilization, as well as being a "valuable tool of social control." However, he says it is "not clear exactly what had brought the idea" to the government's attention, nor could he locate a "single root from which the Canadian residential school system can be seen to have grown."

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