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History in the Present

From: Victims of Benevolence

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In the decades after the establishment of the Mission school Native parents repeatedly protested the care being provided to their children at the school. Yet government officials and missionaries persistently defined the problem at the school not as one of inadequate care, but as the children’s refusal to submit to discipline. The beliefs about Native inferiority that served to legitimize church and government control over Native people mirrored prevailing beliefs within Euro-Canadian society, beliefs that were the product of European colonialist ideology. Native people were culturally stigmatized in the eyes of the non-Native public, and their complaints would have little chance of being accepted as credible.

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Elizabeth Furniss

Elizabeth Furniss was until recently an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Calgary.