Issue 3 – Residential Schools: Uncovering the Truth
“In the 19th and 20th century, the Canadian federal government’s Indian Affairs department officially encouraged the growth of the Indian residential school system as a valuable agent in a wider policy of assimilating Indigenous peoples into European-Canadian society. A key goal of the system, which often separated children from their families and communities, has been described as cultural genocide or “killing the Indian in the child”.
Over the course of the century in which residential schools were in operation, over 150,000 children were put through this “re-education”. Many experienced all forms of abuse, humiliation and over 6,000 died. Click on this link to find out more.
How this story is told, and from what perspective, is a powerful aspect of Canada’s attempts at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
In 2013, videographer Danielle Sturk was commissioned by the Canada Council to produce a video portrait of Anishnabe artist, Rebecca Belmore, one of the 2013 winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. What came out of that collaboration was the following movie, Treaty Number Three.
Issue 3 – Residential Schools: Uncovering the Truth “In the 19th and 20th centur
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