There was an educational poster created to help people with views like Graham and Wilber are espousing. To help “educate” people like that. Don’t worry Graham... no one is going to come take you away from mom’s basement..
The students’ experiences of residential schools were not all bad. Different people had differing experiences. Many dedicated, good people worked in the system. The system itself however was designed “to educate & colonize a people against their will,” as the missionary Hugh McKay admitted in 1903. The policy of forced assimilation had many Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal critics, but in each case the critics were silenced. A good example is the missionary E.F. Wilson, who came into conflict with the church over his criticism of forced assimilation and his promotion of Aboriginal cultures, languages and political autonomy. In short, not everyone believed the schools were promoting good policy.
http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/misconceptions.pdf
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