{"product_id":"a-national-crime-the-canadian-government-and-the-residential-school-system-paperback","title":"A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn S. Milloy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary Jane Logan McCallum\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn S. Milloy\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the departments of Native Studies and History, and Master of Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772979314976,"sku":"9780887557897","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6cc0624494660e7c49834d14b9b5dfa0.webp?v=1780417744","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-national-crime-the-canadian-government-and-the-residential-school-system-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}