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Indian Residential Schools in Canada existed from the mid-1800s to 1996. Nearly 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken away from their families, homes and communities and placed in government-funded, church-run schools meant to erase their identities and to assimilate them into colonized, Christian Canada.
Catholic involvement in the foundation and operation of Indian residential schools is part of a long tradition of Catholic engagement in education, health and spiritual ministry, both to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
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Residential Schools
Most Residential Schools in Canada were run by the Roman Catholic Church, Including the Shubenacadie Residential School.
The Residential Schools harmed the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Inuit, First Nations, and Metis people greatly. Students suffered abuse and lost their culture.
The former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia
INDIGENOUS CRISIS SUPPORTS
CRISIS LINES:
INUIT & FIRST NATIONS HOPE FOR WELLNESS LINE
1-855-242-3310 Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibway, English, French
IRS (INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL) SUPPORT LINE:
1-800-464-8106
1-800-668-6868
POST SECONDARY CRISIS LINE
1-866-925-5454