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They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number

Welton, Michael
http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/09/they-stripped-us-of-our-clothes-and-assigned-us-a-number/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  09/03/2020
Year Published:  2020  
Resource Type:  Article

How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.


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