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120 years of Indian day schools leave a dark legacy in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
'The damage from day schools was just as severe as residential schools,' says former student
Deer, Jessica http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/kahnawake-indian-day-schools-1.5127502
Publisher: CBC
Date Written: 12/05/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Day schools have not received as much attention as residential schools but they were attended by more children who experienced simliar abuses and loss of culture.
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This month, the Federal Court of Canada will be asked to approve a settlement in a lawsuit, the Federal Indian Day School Class Action, against the federal government to compensate for harms suffered by students who were forced to attend Indian day schools.
While churches ran the day-to-day operation of the schools, the federal government inspected them, kept records, and made other important decisions about them....
The schools were operated separately from residential schools, so the students were not included in the 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which recognized the damage inflicted by residential schools and established a $1.9-billion compensation package for all former students.
Day schools were operated by many of the same groups that ran residential schools, however.
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