![]() ![]() This is the full-length entry about residential schools in Canada. ( See also Inuit Experiences at Residential School and Métis Experiences at Residential School.) ![]() In total,Īn estimated 150,000 First Nation, Inuit, and Métis children attended residential schools. (Grollier Hall, which closed in 1997, was not a state-run residential school in that year.) Since then, former students have demanded recognition and restitution, resulting in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement in 2007 and a formal public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008. However, the schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples. Residential schools were created by Christian churches and the Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society. Although the first residentialįacilities were established in New France, the term usually refers to schools established after 1880. Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. ![]()
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