... when the government turned to address the constitutional responsibility for Indians and lands assigned by the Constitution Act of 1867, it adopted a policy of assimilation." The assimilation policy through the schools was to be beneficial but ended up effecting all Aboriginal peoples and has tarnished future generations. "A policy designed to move communities, and eventually all Aboriginal's from their helpless " ... savage" state to one self-reliant "civilization" and thus to make in Canada but one community - a non-Aboriginal, Christian one." There was no better way to promote assimilat...

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