A National Crime - The Canadian Government and the Residential School System (Unabridged)

"I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry." – Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[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) For 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 in…