Main entry:

Milloy, John S., author.

Title & Author:

A national crime : the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 / John S. Milloy ; foreword by Mary Jane Logan McCallum.

Edition:

[New edition]

Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2017]
©1999

Description:

xliii, 409 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Series:

Critical studies in native history, 1925-5888 ; 11

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-396) and index.
Foreword -- Preface to the 1999 Edition -- Acknowledgements, 1997-2017 -- Introduction -- Part 1 - Vision: the circle of civilized conditions -- The tuition of Thomas Moore -- he imperial heritage, 1830-1879 -- The founding vision of residential school education, 1879 to 1920 -- Part 2 - Reality: the system at work, 1879 to 1946 -- "A national crime": building and managing the system, 1879 to 1946 -- "The charge of manslaughter": disease and death, 1879 to 1946 -- "We are going to tell you how we are treated": food and clothing, 1879 to 1946 -- The parenting presumption: neglect and abuse -- Teaching and learning, 1879 to 1946 -- Part 3 - Integration and guardianship, 1946 to 1986 -- Integration for closure: 1946 to 1986 -- Persistence: the struggle for closure -- Northern and arctic assimilation -- The failure of guardianship: neglect and abuse, 1946 to 1986 -- Epilogue: beyond closure, 1992 to 1998.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the "circle of civilization," the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780887557897 (paperback)
0887557899 (paperback)
(PDF)
9780887555213
(EPUB)
9780887555190
9780887552281 (bound)
0887552285

Subject:

Indians of North America Education Canada History.
Indians of North America Canada Social conditions.
Indians of North America Canada Government relations.
Indians, Treatment of Canada.
Indigenous peoples Education Canada History.
Indigenous peoples Canada Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples Canada Government relations.
Off-reservation boarding schools Canada History.
Indigenous Canadians education
Indigenous Canadians history
Schools history
Child Abuse history
Social Conditions history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
First Nations Residential schools History.
Indigenous peoples Canada Residential schools History.
Internats pour Peuples autochtones Histoire.
Autochtones Éducation Canada Histoire.
Peuples autochtones Canada Conditions sociales.
Peuples autochtones Canada Relations avec l'État.
Indiens d'Amérique Canada Conditions sociales.
Premières Nations Relations avec l'État.
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones Canada.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Indigenous peoples Social conditions
Indigenous peoples Government relations
Indigenous peoples Education
Indians of North America Education
Indians of North America Government relations
Indians of North America Social conditions
Indians, Treatment of
Residential schools.
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974- writer of foreword.
Critical studies in native history ; 11.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324912
Call No.: 324912
Copy: 1
Status: Available