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Essay / The consequences of Indian residential schools - 767
The indigenous peoples of Canada are the indigenous peoples of North America located within the borders of present-day Canada. In the 1880s, residential schools began to be established that took native children from their families to schools to learn Roman Catholic culture, not their own. At residential schools, Indigenous languages were banned from most school activities, Indigenous methods were abolished, and Euro-Canadian methods were considered superior. Residential schools were neglectful, there was mental and physical abuse, Aboriginal people lost their culture and the after-effects of residential schools. For more than a century, more than 100,000 Indigenous children attended the schools, run jointly by Ottawa and four Canadian churches. In total, around 20% of indigenous people are in school. For generations, the severely underfunded system has subjected helpless children to emotional, physical and sexual abuse. There were children burned with cigarettes, beaten and sexually harassed. The residential school called The Gordon Reserve is located 100 km north of Regina. The school was demolished shortly after it closed in 1996, but it was not a success in the gruesome trial game. About 230 plaintiffs were awarded between $25,000 and $150,000 each because of sexual abuse they say they suffered at school. The one who was brought to justice was the school administrator, still respectfully referred to as “Mr.” Starr” by several of his former students. He worked at Gordon from 1968 to 1984. He had a 16-year free period of pedophilia at Gordon by luring poor boys into having sex, then buying their silence with money, arcade games and clothes. It was also claimed that many Aboriginal workers at the school knew Starr was being sexually abused...... middle of newspaper...... families end up in broken homes, repeating the cycle of abuse over generations. Many natives became addicted to alcohol and drugs to cope with the trauma. This caused their children to go to foster homes because their parents were unable to care for them. The residential schools did not think that what they were doing would affect the natives in the future, which made them careless. The aftermath of residential schools caused Native people to have nightmares about their past, lose their identity, and become violent themselves. The only good thing that came out of this whole episode was the truth. Justice was served to the guilty, embarrassing the Canadian government and the churches. In conclusion, residential schools were negligent of the ministerial staff they assigned to care for Indigenous children..