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According to the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Federation of Students, indigenous peoples have a right to education under the terms of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Constitution Act, 1982, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (Canada),and the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, but that these rights have historically been ...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) in its final report in 2015 use the specific term cultural genocide, when addressed the history of the Indigenous residential school system. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The TRC’s final report stated "cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to ...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was established to uncover truths about the schools, concluding in a 2015 report that labeled the system as cultural genocide. Efforts have been ongoing to identify unmarked graves at former school sites , and the Pope acknowledged the system as genocide in 2022.
Year Title Author ISBN Notes 1988: Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School: Celia Haig-Brown: ISBN 0889781893: One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.
Further examples of the Court's support for racially separate schools include remarks made by Chief Justice Beverly Robinson in the same 1854 court ruling. Robinson stated that "separate schools for coloured people were authorized, as the defendants have suggested, out of deference to the prejudices of the white population."
The Media Awareness Network of Canada (MNet) has prepared several statements about the portrayals of American Indians, First Nations of Canada, and Alaskan Natives in the media. Westerns and documentaries have tended to portray Natives in stereotypical terms: the wise elder, the aggressive drunk, the Indian princess , the loyal sidekick, the ...
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The province has a number of Sikh, Hindu, Christian, and Islamic schools. Alberta also has a network of charter schools, which are fully funded schools offering distinct approaches to education within the public school system. Alberta charter schools are not private and the province does not grant charters to religious schools.