Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1: The Legacy

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Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert, Don McCaskill
UBC Press, 01.11.2011 - 180 Seiten
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education of Indian children by whites since the arrival of the first Europeans in Canada. Volume 2 is concerned with the wide-ranging changes that have taken place since 1972.

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An Overview
1
2 Micmac Literacy and Cognitive Assimilation
23
The Case of New France in the Seventeenth Century
45
The Education of Indians in NineteenthCentury Ontario
64
Early Catholic Indian Schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia
88
Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School 18841920
110
Indian Day Schools in the Yukon Territory 18901955
132
Blue Quills 19311970
150
Notes on Contributors
169
Index
171
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Autoren-Profil (2011)

Jean Barman is a lecturer in history at the University of British Columbia. Yvonne Hebert is assistant professor of education at the University of Calgary. Don McCaskill is a professor and chairman of the native studies department at Trent University.

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