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Indigenous cultural ties. Indigenous children often fell victims to physical and mental abuse while at Residential Schools, resulting in a high death toll among Indigenous children at residential schools. Following a 1907 inspection of residential schools, it was reported that about 24% of children who had been previously healthy at Residential Schools were dying at alarming rates. Despite reports that there should be reform at residential schools the calls for reform often went unheard and ignored, resulting in a cycle of poor living conditions at residential schools.
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efforts to slow the transmission of these diseases. It is reported that some
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The children were taught curriculums that did not have much educational value, with boys learning things like: carpentry or farming, and the girls being taught to cook, clean, and sew. Due to the technical education they were receiving at residential schools, it was common for residential schools to
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Coupled with the overpopulation and underfunding of residential schools, disease spread among
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took control over the Residential Schools of Canada. The government effectively took exclusive control over residential schools, like Assumption (Hay Lakes) Residential School. It was then decided that assimilation tactics that the church had been using had not worked among Indigenous communities
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In 1875, Bishop Vital Grandin of the Roman Catholic Church, stated that the Church aimed to give Indigenous children a distaste for native life. The distaste for native life would then prompt humiliation in Indigenous children, aiming to assimilate Indigenous people so much that by the time they
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The Canadian government worked alongside churches in Canada in attempts to assimilate Indigenous people into white Canadian society. While the Canadian government initially had little involvement at residential schools, they eventually took full control over the residential schools. In the late
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and the Catholic Church, both of which were involved in the forced assimilation of about 150,000 children in Canada. Of the 150,000 children that were forced to attend residential schools like Assumption Indian Residential School, it is currently unknown how many students were forced to attend
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The characteristics of the children who were forced to attend residential schools changed in the 1960s, making it so that more vulnerable children were forced to attend. Among the more vulnerable children were those with chronic conditions or children who would have been placed in foster care.
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affected by residential schools. The government had full control over Assumption (Hay Lakes) Residential School and the school was later shut down in 1974. Residential schools began to shut down following the Canadian governmentâs attempt to integrate and desegregate education systems.
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families in the afternoon. Despite the fact that most children were able to go home in the evenings at day schools, they still suffered the same types of abuse that they would at a residential school.
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