https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/#ongoing-impacts
This website/article provides a very good summary of residential schools, how they were formed, the impact over generations and the systematic impacts they created. This article also points to the fact that the Canadian government, through the “Sixties Scoop” abducted children, through social services. Children were removed from their families. This problem still persists today and this article describes the ongoing problems. This genocide of Indigenous People is not complete. It continues today through the systems that are still in place like the disproportionate amount of Indigenous children that are removed from their homes by social services. Highly recommend this read to provide a brief history and context of impacts related to residential schools. This website also has information written on the “Sixties Scoop” and “The White Paper of 1969”. This brief synopsis of a dark Canadian history will be important in my project to provide context to the importance of Indigenizing our curriculum. It describes how the past is impacting the future. Multigenerational trauma impacts our learners today and we must understand our history in order to help our future students.