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Bob Joseph
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November 27, 2021 - January 4, 2022
the Indian Act was in place for close to 75 years and what that did was it prevented the passing down of our oral history.
The federal government believed that true assimilation could be attained only by legally abolishing all cultural practices.
The goal of the schools was to “kill the Indian in the child,”12 but tragically it was the children themselves who died in overwhelming numbers at these schools.
The loss of a language severs the connection between a people and their culture.
Two primary objectives of the Residential Schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.
