Squaring the Circle

Canada, like Australia, is belatedly confronting a problem that has long been denied and ignored. Each country is now reckoning the social costs of past policies which sought to achieve the forced assimilation of indigenous children. In Canada this policy was mainly implemented through laws requiring the compulsory attendance of Indian children at school. Some 100,000 children were directed to church-operated residential schools where their cultural transformation could be effected in isolation from their families and the outside world. That isolation left them highly vulnerable to abuse and neglect

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• Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  Open Access•Kim Stanton•International Indigenous Policy…•2011

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• History on Trial

  Open Access•Pam O'Connor•Alternative Law Journal•2001

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• Unconscious Racism

  Open Access•Elena Marchetti, Janet Ransley•Social & Legal Studies•2005

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• Skyscrapers hide the heavens

  J R Miller•Skyscrapers hide the heavens•2000

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• Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation

  Peter D'Errico, Andrew Armitage et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1996

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