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The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches.
- Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
- The Residential School System
- The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
- Common Experience Payment
- Independent Assessment Process
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Commemoration
- Health and Healing Services
- Criticism
- Residential Schools in Newfoundland and Labrador
The largest class action settlement in Canadian history to date, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) recognized the damage inflicted on Indigenous peoples by residential schools in Canada and established a multi-billion-dollar fund to help former students in their recovery. The IRSSA, which came into effect in September 2007...
While there were residential schools in Canada as early as the 17th century in New France, the residential school system did not really develop until after the passage of the Indian Act in 1876, which gave the federal government the right and responsibility of educating (and assimilating) Indigenous people in Canada. Beginning in the 1880s, the gov...
Indigenous communities, governments, and church organizations have long struggled to heal the wounds inflicted by the residential school system. From the 1980s on, former students launched legal campaigns to push the government and churches to recognize the abuses of the system, and to provide some compensation. In 1998, the federal government issu...
Under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, $1.9 billion was set aside for all former residents of the schools. Every former student would receive $10,000 for the first year of schooling, and $3,000 for each subsequent year. According to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada(INAC), 98 per cent of the estimated 80,000 eligible former...
In addition to the Common Experience Payment, funds were allocated for the Independent Assessment Process (IAP), an out-of-court process for resolving claims of sexual abuse and serious physical and psychological abuse. As of 31 December 2012, over $1.7 billion had been issued through the IAP. According to Dan Ish, chief adjudicator of the Indian R...
The Settlement Agreement also set aside $60 million for a five-year Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would provide opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences. The Commission, established in 2008, was directed to raise public awareness through national events (e.g., Winnipeg in June 2010; Inuvik, NWT,...
An important aspect of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement was the emphasis on acknowledging the impact of residential schools and honouring the experiences of former students, as well as their families and communities. To this end, the Settlement Agreement established a fund of $20 million for commemorative projects. This process i...
The Settlement Agreement also included $125 million for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), and it established the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. This program would provide support for former students in terms of mental and emotional health, with the services provided by elders and Indigenouscommunity health work...
While the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) has distributed large amounts of money in compensation and assisted residential schoolsurvivors in their recovery, the system is also open to abuse. For instance, some former students who applied for additional compensation under the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) were the vict...
The benefits of federal compensation packages excluded survivors of residential schools in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since Canada did not establish or operate residential schools in that province (Newfoundland was not part of Canada when the schools began operating), the federal government argued that it was not responsible for compensating former...
Between the late 1800s and 1996, the Government of Canada and church organizations operated the Indian Residential School System. An estimated 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were removed from their families, homes, languages and lands.
10. Okt. 2012 · Last Edited January 11, 2024. Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. Although the first residential facilities were established in New France, the term usually refers to schools established after 1880.
1. Sept. 2020 · Residential schools for Indigenous children existed in Canada from the 17 th century until the late 1990s. During the 19th and 20th centuries, a formal system for the residential schooling of Indigenous children was established and expanded throughout Canada. Concerted federal government involvement in Residential Schools began in ...
18. Apr. 2024 · Residential school, school that was part of a Canadian government-sponsored system created and administered by various Christian churches between 1883 and 1996 with the intentions of assimilating Indigenous children to Western culture and expunging Indigenous cultures and languages.
7. Juni 2021 · OTTAWA — Across Canada, many Indigenous communities are beginning the lengthy process of identifying unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools and investigating the...
