It is estimated that as many as 200,000 Indigenous Canadian children attended these schools. The last Canadian Indigenous schools were shut down surprisingly recently-as late as 1998-and less than a decade later the Prime Minister of Canada issued a formal apology to all Indigenous Canadians, saying that, with its school policies, Canada had failed the Indigenous population in a profound way. For years, white Canadians had been kidnapping native children and bringing them to Christian schools to. He grows up with his parents, John and Mary his brother Benjamin his sister Rachel and his grandmother, Naomi, in the late 1950s.
Indigenous schools were notoriously brutal, and it has been repeatedly alleged that they were hotbeds of pedophilia and sexual abuse. Saul Indian Horse is a member of the Fish Clan, an indigenous tribe from northern Ontario. Indigenous Canadian children were-in some cases literally-grabbed from their parents’ arms and forced to attend school hundreds of miles away, all under the guise of “civilizing” and “assimilating” the young Indigenous population. Racism and discrimination can already be seen affecting Saul’s life when he is a young boy. For more than a century, Canadian law required Indigenous Canadian children to attend church-run residential schools designed to assimilate the children into the predominant white, Christian culture of Canada. The most important, however, is Canada’s Indigenous school system policy. Indian Horse alludes to many important events in Indigenous Canadian history.
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