... colonization unfolded, a sustained effort was made to impose, at first, French and British and then Canadian institutions on indigenous peoples," (Cassidy, 1994). Over the years, society assumed that Aboriginal peoples would eventually be engrossed into Canadian society and would in time adopt its culture and values. Attempts to impose unknown traditions strengthened into a constant effort to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into ... rights and an identity founded on community. More importantly, the policy did not account for the fact that Aboriginal peoples generally did not want to assi...

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... the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact between Canada's Aboriginal people and European settlers there has been conflicting values concerning family relationships and child-rearing practices. The colonists under European control agreed ... of the now established Canada and religious advocators of Christianity, and other religions, were about to make Aboriginal people their problem. "In the first few decades ...

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