As mentioned in module 1 postings, I am interested in the residential school history in Canada. As a child growing up in New Brunswick and living close to a reserve, we had a number of native students in our school and classrooms. As a child, I didn’t like it at all and I didn’t understand why the native students were in school because it was obvious, even to a primary school child, that they really didn’t want to be there.
My education about native Canadians is very weak and I do not recall ever studying or learning about their history or culture while in school. I know only a small amount about the residential school programme in Canada and this is an area I would like to research more. I would like to look at the government’s purpose for these schools, how they operated, the curriculum taught, treatment of the students and their eventual closer and government apology for them.