Indian residential schools: healing through music

Artist: Marie-Claude Simard;
Exposure Date: 2011:06:25 00:46:30;
ImageDescription: Violinist and survivor James Rogers made people dance under the midnight sun during the festivities for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) four-day gathering in Inuvik in June 2011. During this TRC national event, hundreds of First Nations people, Canadians, members of the government and the clergy came together to hear the survivors and shed light on the Indian residential school system that began in the last quarter of the 19th century and would span 130 years. In an attempt to assimilate indigenous people to the mainstream white Christian population, the federal government subsidized more than 139 schools in the country operated by different churches. The last residential school closed in 1996. More than 150,000 attended those schools and 80,000 are still alive today. The consequences of residential schools were in many ways highly detrimental to the native communities.;
Copyright: MCSIMARD 2011;
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