A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: The Long Road to Apology

by Eric Taylor Woods

This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church's role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychological, and physical abuse were common. From the end of the nineteenth century until the outset of twenty-first century, the meaning of the Indian residential schools underwent a protracted transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137486708
• ISBN13: 9781137486707
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"