"A policy designed to move communities, and eventually all Aboriginal's from their helpless "savage" state to one self-reliant "civilization" and thus to make in Canada but one community - a non-Aboriginal, Christian one." ... The Davin report, in which Nicholas Flood Davin performed a report on industrial schools in the United States to establish the same type of the school systems in Canada, started the ball rolling, in many senses, for establishing Canada's Residential School System. ... The residential school system has a history that predates Confederation (the first school was...

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Christian and Jewish (among others) belief system often put humans as the highest form of nature and contradict this belief in Indigenous culture (Grieves, 2008). ... Today, however, a large proportion of Aboriginal people have recognized Christian beliefs and 'for those Indigenous Australians who observe aspects of the Christian faith, it is often a way of continuing with their own spiritual beliefs and cultural lifeway's' (Grieves, 2008). ... 'Western and Indigenous concepts can often be antithetic and this can be the basis of Indigenous children finding literacy, lingu...

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More specifically, Forster condemns the polarized public-school system in England as the principle source of this deadened, underdeveloped heart, stating "it is not the Englishman can't feel "it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at public school that feeling is bad form- (5). ... Moore is also supportive of the Indians, but holds an idealized, somewhat close-minded Christian view on the world, thus adding to cultural misunderstandings seen later in the text. ...

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Many Christian religions emphasize God giving man free-will to choose his/her path (with consequences, of course). ... Culture and personality are widely considered a collaborative "school of thought....

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