WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1884, amendments to the Indian Act, 1876 were adopted and provided for the creation of Indian residential schools. The Indian residential schools in Canada were predominately funded and operated by the Government of Canada and Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian and United churches.

Detailed explanation-2: -Canada’s assimilation policies were institutionalized through the 1876 Indian Act and the Indian Residential School System (IRSS). Indigenous children were kidnapped from their families by government authorities and sent to Residential Schools which were great distances away from their homes.

Detailed explanation-3: -residential school, school that was part of a Canadian government-sponsored system created and administered by various Christian churches between 1883 and 1996 with the intentions of assimilating Indigenous children to Western culture and expunging Indigenous cultures and languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -While the federal residential school system began around 1883, the origins of the residential school system can be traced to as early as the 1830s-long before Confederation in 1867-when the Anglican Church established a residential school in Brantford, Ont.