{"product_id":"a-national-crime-the-canadian-government-and-the-residential-school-system-9780887557897","title":"A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.\"--Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.\"--N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the \"circle of civilization\"; the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA National Crime\u003c\/em\u003e shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Indigenous children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Milloy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Critical Studies in Native History #11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887557897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717155917961,"sku":"9780887557897","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_14991f8a-8c77-4cbf-b069-13009acf88df.jpg?v=1719656827","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-national-crime-the-canadian-government-and-the-residential-school-system-9780887557897","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}