1. "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on t
... 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 ... people's culture and identity. Each child taken from their home has been robbed of their own identity and their ill effects of their experience of abuse and neglect will affect fut...
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