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Colonialism and Coercive Assimilation/Cultural Genocide
Residential Schools as the Pedagogy of Nineteenth-Century Oppression
From: Colonialism and Capitalism Canada's Origins 1500-1890
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This chapter discusses the evolution of the institutional framework of the Canadian state, particularly education, together with the press and the church in shaping bourgeois cultural norms. In relation to Indigenous populations this belief system was put into practice notably through the residential school system, a system of forced labour as much as education that embodied coercive assimilation and, ultimately, cultural genocide.
Contributors
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. He lives in Warkworth, Ontario.
