Indigeneity, Technology, and Education
While there are many articles available focussing on what residential schools were and the pain and hardship encountered by the survivors, this article highlights what the Government’s goal was for Residential Schools and how they would achieve it. Having a view point from the government is important to providing a balanced view of Residential Schools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9zDYXqJusk
Visited 17 October 2018
Justin Trudeau declares that Canadians have discriminated against Indigenous persons for centuries and that in 2016 Canada designated $8.6 billion to aid Canadian First Nations. In his discussions with Indigenous youth in Shoal Lake 40, a community that itself has unclean drinking water while the lake on which it sits supplies water to Winnipeg, Trudeau reports that youth want more counselors and people who will talk with them and listen and more after school programs. Trudeau sees “consultations,” “capacity building,” and “respectful partnership” as First Nations’ way forward from the oppressive legacy of the Indian Act.
I found this lesson which poses a great inquiry question: ” Do the 20th Century changes in the treatment of First Nations Peoples in Canada
represent a period of progress, decline or stasis?” There is the potential for a great deep inquiry into the contemporary issues that are facing Indigenous peoples. Having students research the history (Indian Act) and look at how that is impacting Indigenous peoples today.
Download link: https://wiki.ubc.ca/images/f/f0/Lesson_Plan_FNs_12.pdf