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Aboriginals educational system

Aboriginal educational system has been plagued by discrimination which has caused far lasting repercussions on the aboriginal communities. These discrimination arose in the form of residential schools and still permeate in the current aboriginals schools

Mohwak Residential School

Before the Canadian government introduced residential schools to aboriginals, education consisted of being taught what roles the young aboriginal children would become such as hunters, fisherman, wife or mother and it was the duty of the tribe elders and women to teach the children.

With the introduction of residential schools saw that the children of aboriginals were damaged psychologically and physically by residential schools

After a hundred years, aboriginal education still lacks the means to teach aboriginal youth the aboriginal values that the youth need. The discrimination that Aboriginal education system experience were tactics by the Canadian government to assimilate aboriginal people to the traditional white European life style which induced cultural genocide of aboriginal people. Even today aboriginals school lack the proper infrastructure and funding to help aboriginal youth educate themselves

Education pre-residential school

The methods used to teach skills were taught by every member, with elders playing a very important role. Integral to aboriginal education system was the participation of the family and community as educators

Iroquoian Village

Education was the responsibility of all and it was a continuous process ;parents, grandparents and other relatives naturally played a major role, but other members of the tribe, particularly the elders helped to shape the young people Aboriginal education was about the community or tribe coming together to help guide children of the way of life. Children are taught the rituals and ceremonies of thanking and showing respect to the land and animals. Intrinsically, aboriginal people were about having respect for their land and not abusing nature and that what is needed it taken and the need for opulence was unnecessary and seen as disturbing nature. Education was also used to teach children the social norms of the tribe

The Creation of Residential Schools

The Canadian government designed Indian residential schools to assimilate indigenous children into European settler society by dispossessing them of their cultures, languages and traditions.

Residential schools were places that aboriginal children face abuses mentally and physically. Psychologically aboriginal children were forced to take a European life style and teachers in residential schools shamed children for having an association with the culture or life.

Fort Albany Residential School

Residential schools were designed to function as total institutions and sought to isolate the children from the influence of their families and communities

During the inception of residential school system, aboriginals were seen as savages, with that the government and the church had the presumption that they had to tame the natives savage characteristic.The Canadian government justification for the construction of residential schools was that aboriginal children would learn necessary skills. The reality was that the residential schools were going to be the beginning of the trauma aboriginal children would face and will leave broken from the abuse they saw at residential school. These residential schools were largely suffered from underfunding, overcrowding, lack of administration, sexual abuse and horrendous living conditions which would claim the lives of many aboriginal children cite Residential school had accomplished to induce the cultural genocide of many of the aboriginal traditions.

Post Residential School

Until late 1950s, the residential school systems was operated as a half-day system, in which students spent half of the day in classrooms and the other half at work. The theory behind this was that students would learn skills that would allow them to earn a living as adults, but the reality was that work had more to do with running the school inexpensively than with providing students with vocational training. While the majorities of the aboriginal students were isolated, discriminated and even sexually abused. Due to the harm environment and the constant resistance of the students and adults, the Canadian government and the missionary bodies declared that the school system were ineffective. By 1969, the system was taken over by the Department of Indian affairs, the Catholic Church was no longer involved. By 1986, most schools had either been closed or turned over to local bands. Ten years later, Gordon Residential School in Punnichy, SK, finally closed its doors. Years later, many victims of the Residential School were still not manage to recover. Which lead to somewhat of a breakdown within the communities, family breakdowns, violent activities and helplessness. Children are often the victim of the post-residential school breakdowns, which made it harder for children to participate in education systems.

Present First Nation Education

Canada’s conduct toward First Nations children creates so many violations of children’s rights pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that it is often difficult to keep track . The government has yet to propose a strategy against child discrimination. Though Canada has proposed Settlement Agreement and financial supports, but nothing aids the development of child education in isolated regions. Benefit agreements including Common Experience Payment (CEP) to be paid to all eligible former students who resided at a recognized Indian residential school; Independent Assessment Process (IAP), a claimant-centered, non-adversarial, out of court process for the resolution of claims of sexual abuse, serious physical abuse and other wrongful acts suffered at Indian residential schools ; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), mandated to hold seven national events, support community events, create a public historical record and promote awareness about the residential schools system and its impacts ; Commemoration, a $20 million initiative which supports local, regional and national activities that honor, educate, remember, memorialize and/or pay tribute to former Indian Residential School students, their families and their communities ; and Measures to support healing such as the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program and an endowment to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) . In 2005, the federal government released over 1.9 billion dollars as compensation aids towards residential school survivors. In return, the supporting money are used for school education purposes and rebuilding families.

Discrimination against Aboriginal Students

Though the Canadian government has been establishing financial assistance towards first nation families, the government have not yet to establish any hate crime/discrimination prevention. Workshops and presentation are usually conducted by the school or aboriginal communities to raise awareness on protecting racial equalities. Many of the aboriginal local education provides middle school and pre-school, but not specifically towards secondary school and post-secondary education. If a family is financially capable to send their child to a higher level of education, they are often send to campus outside the communities. Student who were send out are very likely to be discriminated, bullied and threatened. Some even leads to suicides. As most discrimination was done during school by classmates, many cases were closed without punishments. Other cases including body harms, sexual assault and murder were still happening in or outside the classrooms. The government have not created any transportation methods for students who commutes to school, which leads to longs distance of walking on the highway. Thus increase the chance of being in danger, as the on foot commutes could leads to hit and run, rapes and murder by the ride-a-long drivers. This reference to the highways of tears cases, which multiple Aboriginal women were raped and killed along the Highway 16 in British Columbia [4].